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Jesus Christ Science 

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Healing and Living 

A Book of Eemembrance 



By 
MARY G. BORDEN, 

A lowly, child-like Christian, ever pray- 
ing in faith, and hoping to bear conso- 
lation to the sorrowing, deceived, sick 
children of men 

DENVER, COLO. 



Broadway Publishing Co. 

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CONTENTS 

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Book of Remembrance 9 

Golden Days 17 

Overcome Evil 62 

From the Cradle to the Grave 70 

Jesus Christ's Practice 81 

Key to the Kingdom 94 

Daybreak 101 

Signs of the Times 108 

Love, Praise and Prayer 117 

The Student's Practice 124 

Prove All Things 135 



I am the way, the truth, and the life : no man 
Cometh unto the Father but by me. 

Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that be- 
lieveth on me, the works that I do shall he do 
also ; and greater works than these shall he do ; 
because I go unto my Father. — Jesus. 

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal 
body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 

For the wages of sin is death ; but the gift of 
God is eternal life through Jesus Christ. — Paul. 

There is nothing either good or bad, but 
thinking makes it so. — Shakespeare. 

My God of love, called, and I answered Thy 
will, not my will. 

Mary G. Borden 



PREFACE 

The star of Bethlehem is again seen by the 
wise men, leading the way to the man child, 
Jesus the Christ, our salvation from sin, sick- 
ness, and death. 

The author has proved the truths as given in 
this book. She full well knows that the divine 
influence of Good is a strong deliverer; there- 
fore, let the divine influence of Jesus' teachings 
abide in your consciousness. 

She was called by the Holy Ghost to write 
this book of remembrance; to bring to mind 
the life and teachings of Jesus. 

Paul said he was not taught of men, neithet 
was she, but by the teacher sent from God, 
even the Spirit of truth, the Comforter. In 
love and deep humility, she oflfers these pages 
to the children of men. 

Mary G. Borden 

To be resigned to error in any of its myriad 
forms is aiding in the wrong way, simply doom- 
ing oneself to limitation. Rise in rebellion 
against every form of the serpent creation ; let 
not the slightest inharmony enter into your 
consciousness. For all such are not of God, 

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therefore, should be at once reduced to their 
native nothings. 

This beautiful world, male and female, are 
kept in the hollow of God's hand. When evil 
is routed out by the knowledge of only good, 
heaven is at hand. 

Jesus came to save the people from this dev- 
astation, this deplorable state of affairs. 

In the beginning all was good, until the ser- 
pent lie was heard and believed to be the bet- 
ter way, believed to be a wisdom giving 
power, making man a god. 

Ever since that knowledge was believed by 
man he has been a slave to his tyrant ruler, the 
knowledge of good and evil has doomed all 
mortals to old age, ugliness, and a belief of in- 
evitable death. 

This is error in its worst form, a submitting 
to an enemy, God's and man's enemy the devil. 

''Resist the devil and he will flee from you." 

Faith in only good and disbelief in every 
form of evil will save the world and undo every 
form of this world's suffering. 

In olden times men lived to be a hundred 
years old, and would have lived on forever only 
for having come under the law of the carnal 
mind. 

''As a man thinketh in his heart so is he." 

Then be not resigned to sin, sickness, in- 
harmony, nor to death, but rise in the strength 
of your God-given right, eternal youth and 
beauty. Think only good thoughts. I have to 
some extent proved this fact and am a well- 
preserved, healthy woman. 

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Old age is simply an error of limitation, be- 
longs not to God, and will not through sub- 
mitting to death, place his creatures in heaven. 
Death is an enemy, and Jesus came to show the 
world how to overcome death and the grave. 
Be not resigned, therefore, to any form of er- 
ror; deny and denounce all evil. 



A BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE. 



"Then they that feared the Lord spake often 
one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and 
heard it, and a book of remembrance was writ- 
ten before Him for them that feared the Lord 
and that thought upon His name.'' 

Dear reader, I was moved to write this book. 
For years I had been searching the Scriptures 
and praying for guidance. One day I felt cast 
down, and fell upon my knees and prayed to 
God, asking forgiveness and to know the 
way to the Truth that would make me free. A 
voice said, write a book. I was surprised. I 
fell upon my face weeping and declaring that 
I could not write a book. I talked as I would 
have talked to a person, telling why I could 
not even consider such a proposition. I said 
everything had been written, that all the books 
spoken of in the Bible had been written. Some 
time after this experience I was directed to the 
book of remembrance. Years of struggles fol- 
lowed; many visions came to me before I said: 

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''God helping me I will do my best. Thy will, 
O God, not my will, be done." 

''These things have I spoken unto you being 
yet present with you. But the Comforter 
which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will 
send in my name. He shall teach you all things, 
and bring all things to your remembrance, 
whatsoever I have said unto you." 

Ages have passed, generation after genera- 
tion has fallen asleep, myriads of books writ- 
ten, thousands of creeds and doctrines given 
to the world, and yet the millennium has not 
come. Why? Because all the world has not 
turned to God, has not known Him, the Alpha 
and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the 
first and the last. 

It is not my purpose to form a new church, 
or to exalt myself, but plainly to write as 
directed. 

"And the great dragon was cast out, that old 
serpent, called the devil and Satan which de- 
ceived the whole world: he was cast out into 
the earth, and his angels were cast out with 
him." 

The serpent said to Eve: "Your eyes shall 
be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing 
good and evil. And when the woman saw that 
the tree was good for food, and that it was 
pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to 
make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, 
and did eat, and gave also unto her husband 
with her : and he did eat." 

This knowledge was not good for them; it 
brought them only fear and trouble. But 

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thanks to our God of Love, there is a time com- 
ing when all the world will turn to God as 
the only creation, and to see man in His image 
and likeness, perfect as his Father in heaven is 
perfect. 

"And God shall wipe away all tears from 
their eyes; and there shall be no more death, 
neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there 
be any more pain; for the former things are 
passed away." 

Moses, the lawgiver, and our recorder of 
creation, is not infallible. He made mistakes, 
fell short of the high calling of the perfect man. 
Why need we trouble over the creation or care 
how long it took God to make the world ? We 
know that the world is and that we are here, 
and to know how to live and serve God and His 
Christ should be the desire of every soul on 
earth. Whence came this knowledge of crea- 
tion, this vast conception of God's work. We 
all know that Moses was not present, and have 
believed that it was revealed unto him. 

He was born under the rule of a very wicked 
king, at a time when Pharaoh's decree was that 
every son born to the Israelites should be cast 
into the river, at a time when tyranny, wicked- 
ness and cruelty were marked. In a peculiar 
way he escaped the common fate of the Hebrew 
children. He started out in life by killing an 
Egyptian, and through fear went out in the 
country to herd stock. While there, an angel 
appeared to him in a burning bush, whence God 
sent him to deliver Israel. He was afraid. 

"And Moses answered and said : But, behold, 
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they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my 
voice : for they will say, the Lord hath not ap- 
peared unto me." 

Was he not very much like the men of to- 
day, given to like passions? May not this ex- 
plain to some extent the two accounts of crea- 
tion? 

''And God saw every thing that He had 
made, and, behold, it was very good/' 

Doubtless he felt that the people would not 
believe him, as there was before their eyes, 
evil continually, the knowledge of good and evil 
being made manifest on all sides. 

Paul said: ''Seeing then that we have such 
hope, we use great plainness of speech. 

"And not as Moses, which put a vail over his 
face, that the children of Israel could not stead- 
fastly look to the end of that which is abol- 
ished. 

"But their minds are blinded: for until this 
day remaineth the same vail untaken away in 
reading the old testament, which vail is done 
away in Christ. 

"But even unto this day, when Moses is read, 
the vail is upon their hearts. 

"Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the 
Lord, the vail shall be taken away.'' 

"For the law was given by Moses, but grace 
and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man hath 
seen God at any time ; the only begotten Son, 
which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath 
declared Him." 

Jesus sent the devil away before He began 
His work. 

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"Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, 
Satan ; for it is written thou shall worship the 
Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve. 

"Then the devil leaveth Him, and behold, 
angels came and ministered unto Him." 

Devil, all evil, left Him forever ; He came to 
save the world from evil to turn all people to 
God. 

"Then was brought unto Him one possessed 
with a devil, blind, and dumb ; and He healed 
him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both 
spake and saw." 

"But He (Jesus) turned, and said unto 
Peter : Get thee behind me, Satan ; thou art an 
offense unto me: for thou savorest not the 
things that be of God but those that be of 
men." 

A legion of devils was cast out of one man. 
"For He had commanded the unclean spirit to 
come out of the man. For oftentimes it had 
caught Him, and He was kept bound within 
chains and in fetters; and He broke the bands 
and was driven of the devil into the wilder- 
ness." 

"Jesus answered them': Have not I chosen 
you twelve, and one of you is a devil," 

He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon : 
"For he it was that should betray him, being 
one of the twelve." Peter was Satan or a devil, 
because he understood the things of men, the 
knowledge of good and evil : and not the teach- 
ings that came from God." 

This is a wonderful age ; men and women 
have become as gods, but like Nebuchadnezzar 

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they will find that their power, honor and maj- 
esty will depart from them. 

^'Beware lest any man spoil you through 
philosophy and vain deceit, after the traditions 
of men, after the rudiments of the world, and 
not after Christ." 

Moses, in the five first books of the Bible, 
exemplifies to a great degree, the natural and 
spiritual man. He was a wonderful character, 
a good writer, a very capable man. Never were 
such books given to the world. 

Paul gives us a very explicit description of 
dual natures. 'Tor the good that I would I do 
not : but the evil which I would not, that I do. 
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I 
that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 

"I find then a law, that, when I would do 
good, evil is present with me. For I delight in 
the law of God after the inward man. 

**But I see another law in my members, 
warning against the law of my mind, and 
bringing me into captivity to the law of sin 
which is in my members. 

*'0, wretched man that I am ! who shall de- 
liver me from the body of this death. 

"I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
So then with the mind I myself serve the law 
of God ; but with the flesh the law of sin. For 
to be carnally minded is death ; but to be spirit- 
ually minded is life and peace. 

'^Because the carnal mind is enmity against 
God: for it is not subject to the law of God, 
neither indeed can be." 

When Jesus sought to know the opinion of 

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the people, impulsive Peter answered and said : 
''Thou art the Christ, son of the living God/' 

"And Jesus answered and said unto him. 
Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and 
blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my 
Father which is in heaven. 

"And I say also unto thee, That thou art 
Peter, and upon this rock I will build my 
church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail 
against it. 

"And I will give unto thee the keys of the 
kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt 
bind on earth shall be bound in heaven : and 
whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall 
be loosed in heaven." 

During this conversation Jesus reproved him. 
"Then Peter took Him (Jesus) and began to 
rebuke Him, saying. Be it far from Thee, Lord : 
this shall not be unto Thee. 

"But He turned, and said unto Peter: Get 
thee behind me, Satan : thou are an offense unto 
me ; for thou savorest not the things that be of 
God, but those that be of men." 

"Then said Jesus unto his disciples : If any 
man will come after me, let him deny himself, 
and take up his cross and follow me." 

I have, from my earliest recollection, loved 
God, believed Him to be a loving Father, all 
seeing, all powerful, able to do all things for 
His faithful children, if they in no way doubt 
and have no other gods. Many, many helps 
have come to me to show me the way from 
sense to soul, from evil to good, from man- 
made wisdom to the true and living God. 



I truly believe that we can be taught as Jesus 
taught, that we would be, and that in all ages 
people have been taught, by revelation. 

Things of great moment have been predicted 
by God's people years before they came to pass. 

''Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a 
sign ; behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear 
a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 

"And all thy children shall be taught of the 
Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy chil- 
dren." 

'^Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, 
that it cannot save ; neither His ear heavy, that 
it cannot hear. 

''But your iniquities have separated between 
you and your God, and your sins have hid his 
face from you, that he will not hear/' 



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GOLDEN DAYS. 



My coming into this world was very unpre- 
tentious. I was born in Kentucky in Mason 
County on a farm near Maysville. 

My heart overflows with love to God and 
mother when I bring to mind my childhood, 
and remember my dear old country home, my 
meek, gentle, merciful, loving mother, and my 
good, honest, worldly minded, ambitious father. 

I can glean an idea of heaven from what I 
learned before the subtle serpent lie was whis- 
pered into my ear. I lived to love and be loved. 
No thought of the morrow ; no thought of how 
I should be clothed, nor of what I should eat 
or drink, no sad repining nor anxious thought 
of failure, nor of glorious victories won. I 
simply lived and grew in the purity of an un- 
biased mind, under a God of Love, and in a very 
sunny atmosphere. I knew no sin, nor the 
meaning of the words lonesome, fear, devil, 
death and the grave. 

I was never told about the things God for- 
bade the children of men to touch — in short, I 
knew nothing about the things the Gentiles 
were seeking after. I played with the flowers, 
the bees, the butterflies, and the babbling brook 



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in the summer time; in the winter with the 
drifting snow, or whatever happened to attract 
my attention, I was not supplied with toys, 
nor instructed in the art of deceiving, nor hov/ 
to play that I was a big lady, keeping house, 
and raising dollies— some good and some bad. 
Oh, no! My pets and playthings were just 
right in my sight. 

Every person on the plantation, both black 
and white, called me Honey, except father. 
Aunt Mary, for whom I was named, called me 
Mollie Cotton-tail. She said I reminded her of 
a little, innocent rabbit. It was my father's 
notion to keep my mind clear from old precon- 
ceived worldly matters and as his word was 
law, and I was the first child, it was very easy 
to bring me up as he desired. 

The Bible was never read to me, though 
mother very often read it, and sang out of her 
hymn book; after which she always took the 
two books and put them out of my reach. I, 
in some way, felt impressed that she did not 
want me to have them to look at. I was not 
taught to pray, but assured that God was a 
good, loving Father, and that He gave me all 
the good things I needed, and watched over me 
by day and by night ; taking good care of me. 
I was never taken to church nor funerals ; never 
told there were bad things in the dark that 
would get naughty children; nor about an 
angry God that would punish me and send me 
to hell when I died. No, I was a large girl be- 
fore I heard a word about such things. 



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Dear reader, Paradise was lost by hearing 
about these unreal things. "Adam, where art 
thou?" has been echoing and re-echoing down 
the ages,- and a similar answer has been given. 
*'I was naked, and I hid myself." Truly he 
had been stripped of his God-given heaven on 
earth by knowing good and evil. 

When father asked mother's hand in mar- 
riage, her parents told him that he could have 
her if he would leave her with them until he 
left his boat and came on land to live. I was 
brought up in grandfather's home, and was a 
great pet. I never remember asking for any- 
thing that I did not get. I had three brothers, 
and, as I thought, the loveliest sister on earth, 
an unusually smart, bright girl. 

''Be ye, therefore, perfect, even as your 
Father which is in heaven is perfect." 

Do I hear you say that no person can be per- 
fect? Perhaps not, but I believe Jesus knew 
what He was talking about. I know that when 
I was a child, and had never heard about the 
devil, I was not afraid of him ; neither was I 
afraid of becoming a sinner, and being punished 
by the God that I thought was good and lov- 
ing. 

But could I have remained in ignorance any 
length of time? Yes, indeed! I could have re- 
mained in ignorance of error forever, and been 
blessed. Had not God's kingdom been usurped 
by the knowledge of evil, we would have 
ever had ''dominion over the fish of the sea, 
and over the fowl of the air, and over every 



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living thing that moveth upon the earth.'* 

I was about thirteen years old when I left my 
Kentucky home, and went with my parents to 
Washington, Kentucky, where I went to a 
good, select school for two years, and from 
there we moved to Vevay, Indiana. I was then 
placed in a school of larger size, classed among 
the students of my own age, well up with them 
in my studies. I also started Sunday school, 
and attended church, where the seeds of error 
were sowed in my unbiased mind. 

Do you believe it would have done me any 
good, or made me any better to have heard 
about the devil, hell, death and the grave, when 
I was a child? I am sure of one thing, a hap- 
pier child never lived, for ''perfect love casteth 
out fear.'' I was, as I have often heard, a per- 
fectly healthy child. 

The impressions made on the minds of chil- 
dren are very lasting ; I so distinctly remember 
some things that came under my observation 
that was out of the natural order of events. I 
went one evening to visit an old darky couple, 
slaves of my people (Mother's family were all 
slave holders, formerly from Virginia), who 
lived in a log cabin near our house (nearly 
all of the slaves had cabins of their own, and 
some way of earning a little money on the 
side). I called them Uncle Robin and Aunt 
Cynthia. 

The white children of the South were taught 
to have respect for the darkies, and I loved all 
of them, because they were so good to me. 



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There was a large, rough, stone fireplace in 
their room, and an iron rod extended across it 
above the fire, which had some hooks hanging 
on it, one of which held a big, black iron pot. 
Aunt Cynthia made some bread out of coarse- 
looking, yellow flour she called shorts, and 
rolling it very thin, baked it on an open griddle 
that stood on three legs in front of the fire. 
She took a shovelful of coals and placed it 
under the griddle and then placed the cake 
upon it. After a while she turned it over, and 
when it was done, she took a hog's head from 
the pot, and cutting a piece of lean meat from 
it, placed the meat on a piece of the bread, 
which she had broken from the cake, and gave 
it to me. I thought I never tasted anything as 
good in my life. Uncle Robin took me on his 
shoulder after lunch, and took me home. Once 
mother sent Aunt Cynthia to the spring to get 
some cool water. She stayed so long that I 
was sent in search of her, and found her sit- 
ting by the spring with great big tears stream- 
ing down her poor, old, black face. I went to 
her, wiped them oflF, and said: "What is the 
matter. Aunt Cynthia?" 

She said : "Child, I saw the ole ship o' Zion 
a-comin' and heard Gabriel blow his horn, and 
I thought he was a-gwine ter take me to heb- 
ben, sure." 

Then she threw her arms up and began to 
sing and shout "De ole ship o' Zion am 
a-comin', am a-comin'." 

She told me that some day the ship would 



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come and take her away, and that I never 
would see her again. I thought it would be 
hard on me to do without her, but said nothing. 
Sure enough, she went away, and I never asked 
one question about her, but firmly believed that 
she had gone as she told me she would. 

My grandfather and others went, as I be- 
lieved, in the same way. I was nine or ten 
years old before I knew people died. It was a 
custom, among Southern people, in those days, 
to entertain old friends who had been unfortu- 
nate, or otherwise reduced to poverty. One 
evening one of these old gentlemen, a former 
aristocratic Virginian, came to our home. The 
next morning, when I came downstairs, a man 
was shaving him in the hall. I asked, ''What 
is the matter with Mr. Griffin?'' and was told 
that he was dead. I learned, in after years, that 
he was subject to cramp colic, and was taken 
with one of these spells which proved fatal. 
That was the last I saw or heard of him. How 
they managed to keep me from knowing about 
people dying and being buried, I know not, but 
I do know that it was done, and that it worked 
well in my case. 

Now, in this age, it will be very easy to pre- 
vent children learning about an angry God, and 
a devil that will get them if they are bad, and 
the like, for such things are going out of 
fashion. People have been deceived and know 
it ; so they are ready to leave these old thread- 
bare theories, and push on toward their high 
calling. 



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It was at the close of the late Civil War of 
brother against brother, and father against son, 
after the African slaves of my loved sunny- 
South were set free, as I was leaving my teens, 
and beginning to realize that I was no longer 
a child, and that the time had arrived for me 
to be self-supporting. It was at this time that 
I lost heaven, and began to look to other gods, 
and, unawares, entered the broad way that 
leads to destruction. I felt an earthly lack, for 
the first time in my life; for as God is my 
judge, up to that time I had rested securely 
in the belief that God ever cared for me, and 
supplied all my needs, sometimes in a surpris- 
ing way. 

''God's ways are mysterious, His wonders to 

perform ; 
He plants his footsteps on the sea, and rides 

upon the storm.'* 

I did not know that I was losing faith in God, 
and looking to other powers, nor did I know 
that I was starting up a mountain of error, like 
Adam and Eve. I little knew of the outcome. 

I never once thought of disobeying God, or 
of not keeping the words of Christ Jesus. I 
only felt a lack, and desired to move along, as 
I supposed, in the right way. I forgot to think 
right. 

My father was very old by this time, and 
everything was unsettled by the war. I wanted 
so much to do my part. 



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''Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought 
for your life, what ye shall eat, nor what ye 
shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye 
shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, 
and the body than raiment? 

''Therefore, take no thought, saying, What 
shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or where- 
withal shall we be clothed? (for after all these 
things do the Gentiles seek), for your Heavenly 
Father knoweth that ye have need of all these 
things. 

"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and 
His righteousness ; and all these things shall be 
added unto you." 

Thus spoke our Saviour in his sermon on the 
mount. He said He came to save that which 
was lost. 

What was lost? 

Eternal good, and the knowledge thereof. 

Do not think that I mean that we must sit 
down in idleness and be supported. Oh, no, 
no, but I seemed to lose faith. 

"Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall 
make you free." 

Free from what? 

From sin, sickness, sorrow and death. 

"Verily, verily, I say unto you. If a man keep 
my sayings he shall never see death." 

"And whosoever liveth and believeth in me 
shall never die. Believest thou this?" 

We must keep his first commandment: 
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all 



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thy heart and with all thy soul, and with all 
thy mind.'' 

And He also said that if we believed on Him 
we could do greater work than He did. 

Do you want to do these works ? If so, read 
between the lines of the quotations that I have 
given ; silence self ; become as a little child, and 
you shall soon see through the gates that are 
set ajar by a meek, pure-hearted woman, the 
one appointed by our Father to lead the entire 
world back to God, and His kingdom. 

''Jesus said : And I will pray the Father, and 
He shall give you another comforter, that He 
may abide with you forever. 

*'Even the spirit of truth, whom the world 
cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, 
neither knoweth Him, but ye know Him; for 
He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." 

Divine love has made these truths manifest 
and we can, and will, in some way be brought 
to heaven on earth, by the knowledge of God 
as Spirit, Love. 

I will leave you with the thought of the Com- 
forter, or the Spirit of Truth, that has been 
made manifest and will eventually bring in the 
millennium, and return to my subject. 

Soon after the Rebellion the man who after- 
ward became my husband, came to our little 
city, on the banks of the Ohio River. He was 
an especial friend of our professor, and often 
visited our school, soon becoming acquainted 
with all the larger girls. He was a soldier of 
Company A, 9th Regiment of Illinois cavalry, 



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and was studying medicine before he enlisted in 
the army, which fact made him of great use in 
the hospital when he was wounded and in- 
capacitated for active service. 

He was not shot, but while carrying a very 
important dispatch, he was, in a lane with a 
fence on either side, surprised by the enemy. 
A squad of them appeared on a hill, a short dis- 
tance ahead of him, and charged down upon 
him. There was nothing left for him to do but 
retreat or make his horse jump the fence, and 
he decided to do the latter, as the message en- 
trusted to his care was of the utmost import- 
ance. The horse cleared the fence all right, but 
the soldier's foot caught in one of the rails and 
his leg was broken. He did not give up, how- 
ever, but went on and on with his leg dangling, 
delivered the message, and was helped from his 
horse in an almost fainting condition. He was 
highly complimented for his bravery and pro- 
moted. 

The experience of fifteen months at the hos- 
pital was of much value to him in his profession 
in after years. 

As I stated before, I felt that I must be self- 
supporting, so I accepted his proposal of mar- 
riage. I can date my first real trouble from the 
day I promised to get married, and leave home, 
mother, and all my old friends, to try the un- 
known life, with the man of my choice, in a 
large city. Cincinnati was to be our new home. 
We lived there for a time and then went to S^ 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 37 

Louis, where we remained, till a short time be- 
fore my husband's death. 

I shall never forget how I felt when I began 
to pack my trunk. Many briny tears were 
dropped in, and many a heart ache hidden. 
This was my first attempt at deceiving, for I 
pretended to be supremely happy. 

My husband was very good and kind to me, 
always attentive and thoughtful, and never for- 
got to give credit where credit was due ; but he 
was not permitted to remain with me many 
years, leaving me in my twenties with four 
small children. During the most of my life I 
have had premonitions. One of my aunts, just 
before I was married, called me her prophetess. 

I will tell you about my first vision. I, up 
to this time, knew very little about sickness, 
and had never seen but one person die, and that 
was my sainted mother. 

My husband was a brave, energetic man, and 
seldom ever complained, but he was sick and 
dwindling away; the thought of death in con- 
nection with him, had never occurred to me, 
and I thought he would soon be well. One day, 
while I was at home alone with him, he was 
seized with a very severe pain in his side ; get- 
ting up he went into the next room and laid 
down on a lounge. 

I was dreadfully alarmed, and beginning to 
cry, fell on my knees for the first time in my 
life to pray to a personal God. I was pleading 
with Him after this fashion: Oh, God, have 
mercy on my loved one; please provide some 



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remedy that will heal him; do not take him 
from me and my poor little helpless children. At 
this point there seemed to be a bright light in 
the room, which caused me to uncover my face. 
Behold, I saw a ray of light extending across 
the room about three feet above the flowers, 
and my loved husband was dead and laid out 
on it. I can never tell how I felt, nor explain 
why I went directly to him and told him what I 
had seen. He did not appear to be disturbed, 
but said quietly, ''Mollie, darling, that tells the 
tale. I must arrange things for you and the 
dear little ones, and make peace with my God," 
which he proceeded to do that very afternoon. 
He called a lawyer and had his will made, and 
requested the prayers of an old lady friend. 
In a short time he was called upon to leave our 
dear little home in Vevay, Indiana, that he had 
bought for us a few weeks before, so I could 
be with my old friends. 

I was kneeling by his bedside, my face in my 
hands, that awful night, when I heard one of 
the watchers say: "He is dead!" 

At this I felt impelled to look up, and I saw 
my husband in mid-air — alive — with a halo of 
light around his head. I had never seen any- 
thing so beautiful. It was a perfect image of 
him, with all traces of sickness and sorrow 
wiped out. I remained on my knees with my 
eyes riveted on him, forgetting all else for a 
time, but alas ! I must face the worst ; my eyes 
fell on the man of the earth earthy, and I 
realized the situation and cried out : '*My God, 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 29 

why hast thou forsaken me and my poor little 
fatherless children?'' 

Sweet, sleeping, unconscious, little doves, 
types of God's kingdom, they little knew of the 
morrow, and of their mother's grief. Like the 
sparrows they were fed and clothed, resting se- 
curely at home with mother, under a God of 
Love. 

My husband called our son to his bedside 
a few days before he left us and said: ''My 
son, I am going to die ; you are the oldest, and 
I know you can help your mamma in many 
ways, and that you will in every way you can. 
Be a good boy, and look after your little brother 
and sisters, and never forget to hear mamma in 
all things." 

The manly little fellow said he would. I 
do not know whether or not he comprehended 
what his papa said, but at any rate he took it 
in a very matter-of-fact way. 

I had tried to keep them from, knowing about 
death and sorrow. He sat in a stiff-backed 
chair, with his feet some inches from the floor, 
intently looking in his father's face. He had an 
unusual expression for a child of his age, 
looked sorry, but did not cry nor appear to be 
moved. 

Mothers, you will find this to be true in your 
families ; every one of your children will be dif- 
ferent. What will control one will fail utterly 
with another. But carefully keep them from 
evil companions, and so far as lieth in your 
power, prevent them from knowing evil, and 



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hearing about ghosts and dreadful things in 
the dark. Above all, teach them to love and 
trust God and to be good. 

So after my husband's death, my brother 
thought it would be nice for Willie to learn to 
swim ; he said it was highly important for every 
one to learn to swim, so they could, in case of 
an accident, save themselves and help others. 
Consequently he took Willie to the river and 
gave him lessons, keeping him near the shore 
for some time, but one day he took the boy on 
his back and swam out for some distance and 
dropped from under him, saying, ''Swim or 
die !"^ 

Willie thought he meant it, and, as his uncle 
said, "did nobly." 

It was not long before he could swim the 
river, and he learned to love the water and 
swimming better than he did his books and 
school. 

For a time he often played truant, went to 
the river with other boys, and got a young 
lawyer to write excuses to his teacher, which 
were accepted, but at last a note fell into my 
hands and next day I visited the school and 
made investigations. Willie had help, and 
would come home on time, and his plot was 
well covered, but as all evil things are uncov- 
ered sooner or later, this too, was made known 
to me. 

I was greatly grieved and cried and told 
him how terrible such things were. 

He looked straight at me and did not seem 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 31 

to be greatly impressed with the enormity of 
his conduct; at least, he would not promise to 
do different, and repeated the offense time after 
time. 

I was almost distracted, and decided to resort 
to extreme methods. 

I went to the school house and arranged with 
his teacher for her to keep him under her eyes 
till I could get him. She agreed to keep him 
in at recess and I would go and get him at noon 
and after school, and take him to her in the 
morning. This kept up for weeks. One morn- 
ing, as we were nearing the schoolhouse, he 
walked in front of me and said, ''Mamma, this 
must be hard on you. If you will trust me, I 
will not play hookey any more.'' 

I said, "I will trust you," and as far as I 
know, it was as he said. 

Edward, in turn, also began to leave school 
without asking, when he was a very little chap. 
He was soon reported, as everyone in our 
neighborhood knew of my trouble with his 
brother. Eddie was nearly four years younger 
than Willie. One of my neighbors told me 
that he had not gone to school the morning in 
question. I told him how naughty it was, and 
thought from his looks, that he was convinced, 
but when school time came he started in the 
opposite direction from what he should have 
taken, out the back way. I did not say a word, 
but followed him, and as I went, I picked up a 
switch and running up behind him gave him a 



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good hard stroke across the back which sur- 
prised the young man very much. 

'1 will go to school/' he said in great alarm, 
which he did and I had no more trouble from 
him on that account. 

The sisters did not attend the same school 
as the boys, as they were very small and Grace 
was too young. I sent them to a select school 
taught by one of my widowed friends. When 
I took them out of the school to go West she 
remarked how different the girls were. Mary 
was always so alive to things out of the natural 
order, and would always express with wide- 
open eyes, her amazement. 

One day a girl came to visit their school who 
was unusually fleshy. Mary leaned over to 
Grace, after intently looking at the girl, and 
said: "Ain^t shefat?" 

Grace, in an old-fashioned way, said coolly: 
''Of course she's fat." 

The teacher said : ''They will go through life 
in this way." Which fact I have so often 
noticed. 

While we were at the World's Fair at Chi- 
cago, Mary would so often express great ad- 
miration and surprise, while Grace took every- 
thing as a matter of fact. Mary has always 
been noted for her truthfulness. Grace was 
once heard to tell a schoolmate : "May," as she 
was called for short, "said so ; she never told a 
story in her life." 

I always found Grace very truthful, but she 
knew enough to keep still and not implicate 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 33 

herself, and when opportunity offered, would 
say, ''of course." 

Mary is of a religious nature, and Grace is 
good, sensitive and conscientious, but says 
there is not a spark of religion in her. 

Only for the wintry blasts of error, and the 
misconceptions of God and His creation, my 
little jewels would not have been disturbed and 
caused to know other gods, and hear the words, 
''ye shall surely die." 

"Ye cannot serve God and mammon." 

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, whosoever 
shall not receive the kingdom of God, as a little 
child, shall in nowise enter therein." Some 
time after my husband's death, my brother 
John wrote me considerable about Colorado 
and the cattle business. He thought it would 
be a good thing for my boys to be on a ranch 
and learn the business. I told some of my 
friends about his letter, and that I had a mind 
to go to him. He said I could double my 
money every year, and as what little I had was 
going very fast, I felt that I must do some- 
thing soon. Without an exception the idea 
was opposed. What will you do in Colorado, 
out in the country? What do you know about 
stockraising? And innumerable other objec- 
tions were raised. 

One friend said, "You had better let good 
enough alone and remain in town with the 
children, where you can educate them, for out 
in Colorado you will find that things are very 



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wild, and the people are not like they are in our 
old wealthy states." 

But their arguments had little effect. I ex- 
changed several letters with my brother and 
finally wrote him I would come. I had no idea 
of country life, true enough. I had lived on a 
plantation when a child, and had ever looked 
back to those days as the happiest and most 
care-free of my life, but there was no compari- 
son between the two places. 

I never knew anything about the barnyard, 
nor the raising nor care of the stock, nor any 
other branch of work on the farm. 

I was making some purchases of furniture in 
Denver, to take up to South Park with me, 
when my brother, who met us there, said: 
''What do you want with such furniture as 
that? You will have no place to put it. Your 
home is to be a very small log cabin." I looked 
at him in amazement, but did not say anything. 
I found I was going to a cattle country, indeed, 
away up in the Rocky Mountains, where 
scarcely anything but hay and stock could be 
raised. I very soon saw that I was out of my 
element, but the children were delighted. 
They were like birds let out of a cage, climb- 
ing the beautiful rocks, riding horseback and 
playing in the hills and gulches. It was a joy 
to see them. There were wild flowers of the 
most gorgeous hue everywhere, and the girls 
never tired of gathering them. I was very lone- 
some, and felt that it was the worst thing that 
could have happened to me. I would ramble 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 35 

out among the rocks, and fall down and beg 
and cry to be delivered from this, to me, ter- 
rible life. I soon began to receive calls from 
Mr. Olney A. Borden, who lived on a nearby 
ranch, which was situated in a beautiful valley 
on Tarryall Creek, the main road between Colo- 
rado Springs and Leadville, passing directly in 
front of the fairly good-sized frame house ; 
while our ranch was what is termed a dry 
ranch, meaning there was no running water 
on it. 

I was not doubling my money by any means, 
but it was going like the mountain winds, very 
rapidly. We had a home of our own, such as it 
was, and some cattle and a few horses. I was 
thoroughly discouraged, and had made up my 
mind to get out of it at all hazards, and told my 
new friend of my determination. 

He said, ''I knew when I first saw you that 
you could not live over in that lonely place." 

We took dinner at his home, Bordenville, 
the day we went to ''Willow Springs," as our 
place was called. He often spoke of how sorry 
he felt for us that day. He said he thought I 
was lovely, and that he had never seen such 
beautiful children in his life, they were so taste- 
fully dressed and so smart. 

Mr. Borden kept a store, and gave them some 
candy, and whenever they went to the store 
after that he would inquire about their mamma 
and give them ''goodies" as they called them; 
so he trapped them before he caught their 
mother. 



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We were in very good circumstances after 
uniting our worldly possessions, and I truly be- 
lieve that the children loved him as well as 
they did myself. I have often heard it said 
that it was very remarkable how they took to 
him, and that no parent could have been bet- 
ter to children than he was. I know that he 
will have his reward as he has the love of my- 
self and mine. 

He agreed to help me educate the children, 
and in the winter we went to Colorado Springs 
or Denver for them to attend school; they 
could hardly wait for school to close, that they 
might get back to the ranch. Mr. Borden, too, 
was taken from us, but not till the ' children 
were all grown, and three of them were mar- 
ried and had homes of their own, with good, 
kind companions. Edward is also married 
now, and is living on the old ranch. 

I was plunged in utter darkness after the 
death of my first husband. I walked the floor 
most of the time, with my thin, white hands 
clasped and my red, swollen eyes turned up- 
ward, saying, over and over, ''My God, why 
hast thou forsaken me and my poor, little, help- 
less children/' 

I wondered why these things came to me, 
but could see no reason unless it was, as the 
preacher said, that I must join the church. I 
did not find, by so doing, the peace and rest 
I expected. Of late I have had the problem 
solved, and can answer my own questions. 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 37 

God never changed; it was only myself that 
changed. He did not need the doctor's help to 
heal my husband. Oh, no, I had lost my abid- 
ing faith, and was looking to a power apart 
from God. I can so plainly see the cause of my 
trouble, and know that there is a light shining 
into the darkness that is dispelling it. 

My condition was changed by the renewing 
of my mind, after seeing the error of my way, 
and returning to God. The whole world has 
been deceived by the old serpent lie, and all 
people, though they know it not, are slowly 
being made anew. 

''And he that sat upon the throne said. Be- 
hold, I make all things new.'' 

God, as the Bible teaches, is to live with 
men, and be their God, and they are to be His 
sons. 

Mr. Borden was the best friend I ever had; 
he was a godsend to me and my darling little 
children; he idolized me and dearly loved his 
children, as he always called them. He believed 
that churches did good, helped people to 
be better, but he never joined any, nor did he 
join any lodge. He rather feared that when we 
died that was the last of us. Therefore, he 
dreaded to die, loved life, and seemed to be 
afraid of death. 

He often, during his last sickness, would say, 
"I may leave you soon." 

I always tried to encourage him by saying: 
'Tear not, you may outlive me," or some other 
matter-of-fact thing. 



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But the day he passed away he said: ''This 
may be my last day." 

I went near where he was sitting and said: 
''Well, if you do, God will be with you/' 

And then I told him a little story. 

"Do you remember my sister Anna?" 

He said, "Yes." 

"She said before she died that she was going 
to heaven, and build a mansion, and have it 
ready for us when we came. You will go to 
heaven, and she will come running to meet you, 
and say: 'Well, dear Uncle, I am so glad to see 
you,' and take you into her mansion and ask all 
about us. Then you can live with her and be- 
gin to build a mansion for us." 

He looked delighted, and said: "Oh, can I? 
Then I will be happy. I can keep busy and 
wait for you and the children." 

The awful dread left him and at the close of 
day he went to sleep, became like a little child. 

He left me long years ago, and the hurt has 
never been healed. I was left alone, so I broke 
up housekeeping and have never learned to live 
as before, without him and a home of my own. 

I will tell some experiences that I have had 
on my journey from sense to soul. 

"I have been young, and now am old; yet 
have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his 
seed begging bread." 

I am now old, long past the allotted age for 
people's usefulness; nevertheless, I am, as I 
believe, coming into my best days, into har- 
mony — heaven. I am well preserved, active, of 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 39 

sound mind, and not bad to look at, for I am 
being regenerated, coming into newness of life. 

I have often been called a prophet, because I 
foretold coming events, had visions and dreams 
that meant much to me. I always firmly be- 
lieved that there was some special divine work 
for me to do, and have said as much to a very 
few relatives and intimate friends; some ap- 
proved, some condemned, some ridiculed; 
nevertheless, I have caused the sage to wonder 
and the silly to feel jealous because they were 
not like me. 

Most every time I had a vision there was 
some one present, and I forthwith told what I 
saw, and I never failed to tell just as it was. 
Consequently, I have many that will verify for 
me. Some said it was wonderful, some that it 
was divine intuition, others said it was teleg- 
raphy of thought. Many theories have been 
advanced. Be it as it may, I know that God has 
been good to me and that I have come out of 
many tight places; my blessings have been 
many. 

This book is one of the outcomes of this same 
leading. I confidently expect to have more 
and do more good from now on, because I am 
learning the truth and shall be made free. 

'*Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall 
make you free." 

I am at present living with a loved niece. 
Years ago I saw her when a mere child, spirit- 
ualized. She said: *'You must write and now 
is the time/' 



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She declared that the words were put in her 
mouth, that it was wonderful. She heard a 
voice, but it seemed to be away from her. 

I said: ''I once saw you as Hght. Do you 
believe there is a book for me to write or a 
special work for me to do?" 

She said: "In all candor, I know it." 

Here in this home, I have a shelter, a hiding 
place from the old Dragon to do my allotted 
work. Thy will, O God, not my will ! 

Daisy stands as a mighty defense, protect- 
ing me from interference, sheltering me from 
the wintry blasts, like Martha of old, prepar- 
ing the meals for Mary. 

Jesus once said: "Father, glorify tliy name." 

*'And He heard a voice saying: I have both 
glorified it, and will glorify it again." 

''Now is the judgment of this world: now 
shall the prince of this world be cast out. And 
I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw 
all men unto me." 

We stand united; are of one mind. We are 
prophets ; we are servants of the most high 
God, again glorifying on earth His name as a 
Father of Love, as ever present eternal Good. 

The days of evil on earth are numbered; the 
strongholds are being pulled down, are totter- 
ing, and will fall into the dust. 

Man is the noblest work of God, His image 
and likeness. 

Paul, the apostle that was called as I have 
been, said : ''Know ye not that ye are the 
temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwel- 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 41 

leth in you? Ye are Christ's, and Christ is 
God's. 

"Every sin that a man doeth is without the 
body; but he that committeth fornication sin- 
neth against his own body. 

"What, know ye not that your body is the 
temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, 
which ye have of God, and ye are not your 
own? 

"For ye are bought with a price ; therefore 
glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, 
which are God's. 

"For as many as are led by the spirit of God, 
they are the sons of God. 

"Know ye not that ye are the temple of 
God and that the spirit of God dwelleth in 
you? 

"If any man defile the temple of God, him 
shall God destroy (let go on doing evil), for 
the temple of God is holy, which temple ye 
are/' 

Saul journeyed toward Damascus with let- 
ters from the high priests to bring all men and 
women bound unto Jerusalem that worshipped 
God as taught by Jesus. 

Now, had not Saul heard the voice of truth 
and turned to good he would have destroyed 
himself, or let evil finish its work in him 
and it would have been manifested on his 
body. But he was saved from the destroyer 
by hearing the voice of Jesus He said : "Who 
art thou, Lord ; what wilt thou have me to do ?'' 

He was sent to Ananias, and was certain 



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days with the disciples being taught. Then he 
started out preaching Christ, and that He is 
the Son of God. From now we will know him 
as Paul. He and Barnabas were chosen to go 
to the Gentiles. Dear Paul did his best and 
was faithful to his charge. 

I am constrained to tell about some of the 
blessings that have come to me, to prove that 
the bread that we cast upon the water will re- 
turn to us again. 

The burden of my life was that I might live 
to raise my children. They are all grown and 
married, good men and women, and have paid 
me back tenfold by becoming Christians. 
Good, honest, kind companions and loving 
children, they are ever ready to serve mother. 
I have treasured in memory many returns of 
Christmas. I will reproduce two of them that 
made me exclaim: *'This is heaven on earth!" 
my cup was so full. 

Another day has come to me, and I can truth- 
fully say that God has never seemed so near me 
before. I have never witnessed such a fulfilling 
of the law of love as in the past few years. I am 
old to-day, and would like to give you some idea 
of what I have learned ; not from organizations, 
doctrines, or sects, but by living in an age of 
great enlightment and progression, not only in 
the material, but in the spiritual sense. 

From the time my eyes saw the light this 
morning, until the shades of night, there was 
nothing but the "very good" made manifest in 
my behalf. 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 43 

"And infinite love is reflected in love." 

My niece, Anna, one of the joys of my life, 
is a good, sweet young girl who grew and 
blossomed mostly under my care, so lovingly 
planning the surprise, under my window in 
company with my eldest son, William. 

I heard him say to his little daughter: 
"Grace, this is your birthday, too, isn't it? But 
you celebrated yours several days ago before 
mamma went to Denver. Can you not think of 
something nice for grandma, for this is her 
birthday." 

He then went into the house to see Anna, 
and said: "Cannot we have the folks all here 
for supper?" 

"Oh, yes," was the answer. So fraught with 
loving kindness, she was delighted to be able to 
do her part. 

Soon after the 'phone rang, and my youngest 
daughter, my baby, Grace, said : "Congratulate 
mother for me, and tell her to come up here for 
dinner." 

I was upstairs in the room set aside for me 
when the house was built, and called "Mother's 
room," when I heard Eddie and Grace, my two 
little grandchildren, unlocking the safe to get 
out their banks. For what? I knew only too 
well. They were going to papa's store to get 
me a present. 

All of these pleasant things were to be sur- 
prises, but, alas, for the open window and the 
thinness of the floor, which had not been taken 
into consideration. 



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Last evening, May* and Grace, my two 
daughters, came to see me, and I heard them 
say something about the next day to their 
brother. I gathered that they had planned to 
give me a very costly present, and in some un- 
foreseen v^ay it had not materialized, and they 
decided to explain all about it to me next day. 

Mary, like Lazarus' sister Mary, was at home 
this morning, as usual, reading and treating 
(or healing). She '*hath chosen the better part," 
and is preparing for the burial of evil, and the 
coming of the new Jerusalem. She was with 
us at the evening meal. 

All of my children are with me in Antonio, 
except my baby boy, his wife and little son, 
who are out of the fold to-day, but not for- 
gotten. 

Edward has never forgotten me; his little 
tokens of love have ever been received and 
greatly appreciated, for I was not always 
as I am to-day. I was for many days down in 
Egypt, sick, sorrowful and very childish. It 
was in those sad days that little attentions 
struck home. 

The day is now ended and it has been the 
very best one of my life. 

The six-o'clock dinner is over, and it was, as 
our young people would say, a dream, a fairy 
tale. 

The long table was handsomely decorated 
with sweet peas and pansies; the table linen 
was snowy, and the china and glass ware very 
beautiful. 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 45 

As I stood looking at the grand preparations 
that had been made for me, my heart went out 
to God and man and I felt that I had been 
greatly blessed. 

It is a strange thing to tell, but this was my 
first party. I have given so many to others 
and now my bread is returning to me as prom- 
ised in the Bible. 

I have had dinners given me by my friends 
and children, but nothing like this before, in all 
my life, and there was such unusual love mani- 
fested. 

I have noticed of late, since I have been try- 
ing to put self out, that every person looks so 
nice and good to me, and everything seems to 
go well. All day I have had to silence error, 
which would say : ''The absent are not included 
in this merry making." But when we sat down 
to the table I felt supremely happy and sure 
that they were all of one mind, if not in the 
same place, and of the fold securely kept by 
the same God. As there were no vacant places 
I was soon enraptured by my surroundings. 

Mrs. Eddy says heaven is harmony; then we 
were certainly in heaven at this party of mine. 

This was little Grace's birthday, too, but her 
mamma was going to Denver to help her 
mother get settled before school began, in order 
to send Grace's little Aunt Lizzie to school, 
and so had her party about a week before. 
Eddie and Grace each presented me with a 
beautiful embroidered white silk handkerchief. 
They made a trip to their papa's store, one on 



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a horse and the other on a donkey, for their 
gifts, and on their return Mary Marshall came 
with them, riding Sport, her mamma's big 
buggy horse. 

Upon taking her leave she informed me that 
she would be back in about two .hours with 
her present. 

When Will came home for the six o'clock 
feast he handed me the loveliest gold watch 
and chain that I ever saw. There were nine 
diamonds on the watch and one on the slide 
of the chain, a present from my absent son. 

Was I not right about Ed's remembering 
me? 

The other children and Anna gave me a fine 
dress suit case. 

After it was all over, and I went to my room, 
I returned thanks to Him who giveth all good 
things. Thus ended one of the days of days. 

''In the light of the King's countenance is 
life; and His favor is as a cloud of the latter 
rain." 

*The highway of the upright is to depart 
from evil; he that keepeth his way preserveth 
his soul." 

On my next birthday I had the best planned 
surprise of my life at Edward's home, the 
dear old home that Mr. Borden so lovingly 
gave me, situated at Bordenville, where we 
lived until his health failed. 

This September morning came with many 
joyous blessings. My son-in-law, Mary's hus- 
band, called up early on the 'phone to congratu- 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 47. 

late me and wished me a good time and many- 
returns and then jollied me about coming up 
to whip me. He said, sixty strokes and a 
hard one to grow on would make me very sore, 
and he was always so alive to everything, so 
liberal, and anxious to do his part. 

He has left us, suddenly; quietly he passed 
away. We will always miss him whenever we, 
as a family, meet together. 

In the evening, as usual, I was called to din- 
ner. I knew Mary and John had arrived, so 
went down. When I opened the door, I broke 
down and cried; I was so surprised and over- 
come, so full of delight, I could not help it. 
The dining room was decorated with choice cut 
flowers, Mrs. Barlow's brother and young wife 
had sent to Denver and got some of them, and 
others had been donated. The table was beau- 
tiful, as Sadie Barlow cannot be excelled in 
preparing a dinner of the kind. Oh ! such a 
lovely big, brown turkey and everything to go 
with it, and on the sideboard such a big white 
pound cake. Fruit, ice cream, nuts, candy, and 
everything so exquisitely decorated ; was it any 
wonder that I lost my head? Little Willie and 
my namesake, Mary, never gave awav a thing, 
yet they had been up to visit me several times 
during the day. Precious jewels! ''Of such is 
the kingdom of heaven." 

I also received several nice presents from the 
loved ones, and from those absent in person. 

I have seen heaven on earth made manifest 
many times, but never did I feel so impressed 



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as on that occasion. Such a well-kept secret! 
Such loving kindness ! Such a sea of beaming 
faces as met my view ! Is it any wonder that 
I was overcome with praise and joy? 

I could but say : ''God is too good to me. I 
am blessed beyond my expectations." Thank 
goodness, I very soon' regained composure and 
began to laugh and express my thanks and ap- 
preciation. All went well and everyone en- 
joyed themselves. 

God alone knows how I felt when I went to 
my room that night. Love is the fulfilling of 
the law. God bless my dutiful children. 

''The Son of man has come to save that 
which was lost." 

'T came not to call the righteous, but sin- 
ners to repentance." 

"Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a 
sign; behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear 
a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." 

The prophets of old foretold His coming; 
wise men were led by a star when He was 
born; angels made straight His path and an- 
nounced His name Jesus. "For He shall save 
His people from their sins." 

Why did God send Jesus? 

To save people from their sins. 

The world will never come to an end, but 
sin will. 

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall 
make you free." 

We will some day and in some way regain 
that which was lost. 



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What was lost? 

The kingdom of God, perfection, dominion, 
the knowledge of good. 

What shall we do to regain that which was 
lost? 

Return to God; have no other gods; love 
your neighbor as yourself; do unto others as 
you would be done by ; love that which is good 
and abhor that which is evil; deny self; ''be- 
come as a little child"; wholly accept Jesus' 
teachings. 

Be perfect. Follow Jesus ; He is the way. 

Nebuchadnezzar's experience as given in the 
book of Daniel has been very helpful to me. 
He was a dreamer and some of his dreams 
troubled him very much, but the one that 
meant the most to him he forgot. So he com- 
manded the magicians, and the astrologers, and 
the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to tell him 
his dream and to give the interpretation of it. 

The poor, would-be scientific men could not 
do it. The king said: ''If ye will not make 
known unto me the dream, with the interpre- 
tation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and 
your houses shall be made a dunghill." 

After great trials and tribulations God re- 
vealed the secret to Daniel in a vision. 
"Blessed be the name of God forever and ever ; 
for wisdom and might are His." 

"And he changeth the times and the seasons : 
he removeth kings, and sitteth up kings: he 
giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge 
to them that know understanding. 



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''He revealeth the deep secret things, he 
knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light 
dwelleth with him. 

''I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God 
of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and 
might, and hast made known unto me now 
what we desire of thee: for thou hast made 
known unto us the king's matter.'' 

The king heard Daniel and accepted his 
version, and praised God, and ere long caused 
a great golden god to be made for all of his 
kingdom to worship. 

He soon had another dream and called upon 
Daniel again. Daniel came and said, ''Where- 
fore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable 
unto thee, and break of thy sins by righteous- 
ness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy 
to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy 
tranquillity." 

"At the end of twelve months he walked in 
the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The 
king spake and said. Is not this great Baby- 
lon that I have built for the house of the 
kingdom by the might of my power, and for 
the honor of his majesty?" 

"While the words were in the king's mouth 
there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king 
Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken ; the king- 
dom is departed from thee. 

"And they shall drive thee from men, and 
thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the 
field: they shall make thee to eat grass as 
oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until 



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thou know that the Most High ruleth in the 
kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever 
He will." 

*'And at the end of the days I, Nebuchad- 
nezzar, lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and 
mine understanding returned to me, and I 
blessed the Most High, and I praised and hon- 
ored Him that liveth forever, whose dominion 
is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom 
is from generation to generation. 

*'And all the inhabitants of the earth are 
reputed as nothing: and He doeth according 
to His will in the army of heaven and among 
the inhabitants of the earth : and none can stay 
His hand, or say unto Him, What doest thou? 

''At the same time my reason returned unto 
me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine 
honor and brightness returned unto me; and 
my counsellors, and my lords sought unto 
me ; and I was established in my kingdom, and 
excellent majesty was added unto me. 

"Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol 
and honor the King of heaven, all whose works 
are true, and His ways judgment; and those 
that walk in pride He is able to abase/' 

Job, also, had a similar experience; his last 
days were blessed. 

I have digressed from my subject, but I 
never lost sight of the point at issue. I want 
to impress you with the fact that knowl- 
edge of God and of His Son, Jesus Christ, 
will lead us to the light of the perfect day. 



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The first verse I ever learned my saintly 
mother taught me. 

"Let love through all your actions run and 
all your words be mild/' 

It would be useless for me to say that I al- 
ways lived up to it. 

Jesus came as it was foretold He would. 
He was born a little baby. Joseph dreamed 
how He was to come, what His name would be, 
and that *'He shall save His people from their 
sins." 

Recollect that Jesus came to save ; that He is 
^'Emanuel, God with us." John the Baptist, 
His forerunner, came preaching, saying, ''Re- 
pent ye: for the kingdom of heaven Js at hand. 
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His 
paths straight. 

"I, indeed, baptize you with water unto re- 
pentance; but He that cometh after me is 
mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy 
to bear: He shall baptize you with the Holy 
Ghost, and with fire." 

Recollect, Jesus' very first duty was to dis- 
miss the devil once for all. 

This is our individual work: to destroy in 
our consciousness the belief of any power 
apart from good; turn to God, to know God 
created good only, and that the devil (all evil), 
is of human origin. 

Jesus could not destroy, cast out, anything 
that God created. 

From the time that He sent the devil away 
Jesus began to preach, and to say, "Re- 



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pent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." 

Next He asked men to follow Him and went 
about teaching and preaching the gospel of 
the kingdom, healing all manner of sickness 
and all manner of disease among the people. 
People were brought to Him that were sick, 
diseased, tormented, ''and those which were 
possessed with devils, and those which were 
lunatics, and those that had the palsy : and He 
healed them.'' 

Dearly beloved, all the aforesaid evils that 
He healed He came to destroy, to demolish. 

Next He began to preach His sermon on the 
mount, which sermon will heal and save the 
world. 

He never failed to impress His hearers with 
His people's worth. 

'*Ye are of the salt of the earth, the light 
of the world." 

'^Behold the fowl of the air: for they sow 
not, neither do they reap, nor gather barns; 
yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are 
ye not much better than they?" 

When He sent the apostles out to do the 
Father's work He assured them of their worth, 
and of God's care; He told them not to be 
afraid, that the very hairs of your head were 
numbered. 

In love he gave them full directions for He 
knew all things, as was so fully proven at the 
close of His earthly walk among sinful men. 

He spoke as never did any other man, and 
did so many mighty works that the wise in 



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their own conceit became jealous, and began 
to conspire together to get Him and His be- 
lievers out of their way. He dared to speak 
the truth, to reprove the scribes and pharisees 
for transgressings against God's command- 
ments, and against Herod for his wickedness. 

It was at the time Herod had John beheaded 
for the damsel who danced before him. 

"T"he disciples buried his body and went and 
told Jesus, who said not a word, but went away 
into a desert place, as was His custom. 

A great multitude followed Him and He fed 
them with jfive loaves and two fishes, a great 
miracle. Then he went alone into a mountain 
to pray, after sending His disciples in a ship 
to the other side of the sea, and later He went 
to them, walking on the sea. 

The people that were in the ship worshipped 
Him, saying, *'Of a truth Thou art the Son of 
God.'' 

We know that no other man has ever done 
the works that Jesus did, and we know that 
no man ever was endowed with such a knowl- 
edge of God's plan of salvation, of saving all 
people from the wily ways of the devil (all 
evil). 

Son of man, hear what the Spirit hath to 
say. Keep yourself unspotted from the lusts 
of the flesh and from the sins of the world, and 
your brightness shall shine forth and your 
glory begin. We are coming into our God- 
given heritage. It is glorious to live in this age, 
vinder this dispensation of divine love. 



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Jesus did wonderful healing. Dare we be- 
lieve that His life work was given for a few, 
or a special generation ? No, He came to save 
the world, all people, from their sins, from 
sickness, sorrow, pain and death. 

The God-given truth which He taught is like 
the leaven in the meal. The truth will turn 
and overturn until the whole world is saved; 
until every knee bends and every tongue con- 
fesses Him as the Son of God. This is the 
key to the kingdom of heaven, and will eventu- 
ally bring heaven on earth. 

**A11 people are waking up out of a long sleep, 
a sleep similar to the deep sleep which Moses 
said fell upon Adam when his rib was removed. 
Strange and marvelous delusions have filled the 
minds of the people; they have done wonder- 
ful things, conceived many useful contrivances. 

So many sects, so many magnificent churches 
built! Indeed, this is a world of churches. 
Nevertheless, we are all far from being like the 
humble Nazarene. Good, old Daniel labored 
with his vainglorious king to keep him from 
the horrible fate that his dreams foretold, yet 
the king persisted in his ways and suffered ac- 
cordingly. 

Not so with the meek, modest, childlike 
Jesus. He went about doing His Father's 
work, asking no honors, nor pay. People of 
low degree and the poor gladly heard Him and 
followed Him, some to learn, some for the 
loaves and fishes. 

He always had compassion on them, forgave 



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and loved them in spite of their unkind treat- 
ment of Him. He healed the sick, raised the 
dead, walked on the water, fed the hungry. He 
sent the twelve out endowed with divine wis- 
dom, to do the work that He was doing, and 
in time seventy more. They all did much in 
the right direction, but the human nature often 
cropped out in them. It was hard for them 
to be always good, and walk in the new way. 
Peter denied Jesus, and was Satan; Judas be- 
trayed Him with a kiss and was a devil. Re- 
member, all that he cast out or healed came 
not from God, sickness included. 

Impulsive Peter was a very unique char- 
acter; he would declare his loyalty and love 
for Jesus, and in a moment would leave Him 
and declare that he never knew Him ; he would 
wax angry in defense of Him and then deny 
Him ; he would start to walk on the water and 
then his faith would desert him. He did many 
mighty works in his Master's service, and was 
assured of His blessings. Peter's sermon on 
the day of Pentecost made the worldly wonder. 
He upbraided the Jews for their cruel treat- 
ment of Jesus, so ''they were pricked in their 
heart, and said unto Peter and the rest of the 
apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?" 

''He said, Repent and be baptized, every one 
of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the re- 
mission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of 
the Holy Ghost. 

"For the promise is unto you, and to your 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 57 

children, and to all that are afar off, even as 
many as the Lord our God shall call." 

"And with many other words did he testify 
and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this 
untoward generation." 

John the Baptist said he baptized you with 
water unto repentance, but that Jesus would 
baptize with the Holy Ghost. 

It has been questioned who baptized more 
disciples, Jesus or John. It was said that Jesus 
himself baptized only His disciples. 

Peter's deliverance from prison was another 
wonder. He was chained and guarded, never- 
theless, he was delivered out of King Herod's 
hands. 

God is able to do every good thing for His 
faithful children. 

Jesus prepared the apostles for His ascen- 
sion. He showed Himself after His death for 
forty days, assuring them that after He was 
taken up the Holy Ghost would be sent of the 
Father. 

Very soon after the ascension, on the day of 
Pentecost, they were all ''with one accord in 
one place. 

"And they were all filled with the Holy 
Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues 
as the Spirit gave them utterance." 

We must listen for the still, small voice of 
Spirit, the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, our 
teacher. If we would be like Jesus and do the 
work He did we must know Him. 

He is the light of the world. He is full 



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of love, grace and truth, always refusing evil 
and choosing good. 

Luke gives a good idea of His character and 
of His mission. '*And the child grew, and 
waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom : and 
the grace of God was upon Him. 

**Now His parents went to Jerusalem every 
year at the feast of the passover. 

"And when He was twelve years old they 
went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the 
feast. 

''And when they had fulfilled the day, as they 
returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in 
Jerusalem and Joseph and His mother knew 
not it. 

"But supposing Him to have been in the 
company, went a day's journey; and they 
sought Him among their kinsfolk and acquaint- 
ance. 

"And when they found Him not they turned 
back again to Jerusalem seeking Him. 

"And it came to pass that after three days 
they found Him in the temple, sitting in the 
midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and 
asking them questions. 

"And all that heard Him were astonished at 
His understanding and answers. 

"And when they saw Him they were 
amazed: and His mother said unto Him, Son 
why hast thou thus dealt with us? Behold 
thy father and I have sought thee sorrow- 
ing. 

**And He said unto them, How is it that ye 



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sought me ? Wist ye not that I must be about 
my Father's business?" 

"He went with them and was subject to 
them, and increased in wisdom and stature, and 
in favor with God and man." 

He was a faithful, obedient Son, even to 
the close of His earthly mission. 

*'This, this is life eternal, that they might 
know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ 
whom Thou hast sent. 

"I have glorified thee on the earth : I have 
finished the work which thou gavest me to do." 

The twelve followed Jesus and did wonder- 
fully well, considering the fearful opposition 
and the mighty powers that they had to work 
against. Only for God's support and Jesus' 
knowledge of everything they would have been 
swallowed up by the serpent, and the vainglor- 
ious crowned heads and their armies of sub- 
jects. Judas fell under their craftiness. 

It required great courage and faith to go 
about in opposition to the Jewish religion in 
those days. They all deserted Jesus after Judas 
betrayed Him, and left Him to suffer alone; 
fear overtook them. Such inhuman cruelty! 
All left Him save some women. Mary Magda- 
lene and another Mary were at the sepulchre. 

I love to read Paul's books ; he was a grand 
character who lived after the straightest sect of 
the Jewish religion, a Pharisee. In his own de- 
fense he said : '*And now I stand and am judged 
for the hope of the promise made of God unto 
our fathers. 



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"Unto which promise our twelve tribes, in- 
stantly serving God day and night, hope to 
come. For which hope's sake, King Agrippa, I 
am accursed of the Jews. 

''Why should it be thought a thing incredible 
with you, that God should raise the dead ? 

"I verily thought with myself that I ought 
to do many things contrary to the name of 
Jesus of Nazareth. Which things I also did in 
Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut 
up in prison, having received authority from 
the chief priests; and when they were put to 
death, I gave my voice against them ; I perse- 
cuted them even unto strange cities. 

''Whereupon, as I went to Damascus with 
authority and commission from the chief 
priests, at mid-day, O King, I saw in the way 
a light from heaven, above the brightness of 
the sun shining round about me and them 
which journeyed with me. 

"And when we were all fallen to the earth, I 
heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying, in 
the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecut- 
est thou me ? it is hard for thee to kick against 
the pricks. 

"And I said. Who art thou. Lord? And He 
said, I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest. 

"But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I 
have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to 
make thee a minister and a witness both of 
these things which thou hast seen, and of those 
things in thee which will appear unto thee. 

"Delivering thee from the people, and from 



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the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee. 

''To open their eyes, and to turn them from 
darkness to light, and from the power of Satan 
unto God, that they may receive forgiveness 
of sins, and inheritance among them which are 
sanctified by faith that is in me. 

"Whereupon, O King Agrippa, I was not dis- 
obedient unto the heavenly vision. 

''But shewed the first unto them of Damas- 
cus and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the 
coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that 
they should repent and turn to God, and do 
works meet for repentance. 

"For these causes the Jews caught me in the 
temple, and went about to kill me. 

"Having, therefore, obtained help of God, I 
continue unto this day, witnessing both to 
small and great, saying none other things than 
those which the prophets and Moses did say 
should come. 

"That Christ should suffer, and that He 
should be the first that should rise from the 
dead, and should shew light unto the people, 
and to the Gentiles. 

"And as he thus spake for himself, Festus 
said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside 
thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. 

"But he said, I am not mad, most noble Fes- 
tus; but speak forth the words of truth and 
soberness. 

"For the king knoweth of these things, be- 
fore whom also I speak freely: for I am per- 
suaded that none of these things are hidden 



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from him; for this thing was not done in a 
corner. 

"King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? 
I know that thou beUevest. 

'Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou 
persuadest me to be a Christian," 

So the trial went on, and Paul was preserved 
and did a most noble work for good. He was 
hounded down, and treated shamefully. Such 
cruel things have been done in the name of re- 
ligion ! There is no religion in such things ; it 
is the lack of religion. 



OVERCOME EVIL. 

'Take no thought for the morrow; for the 
morrow shall take thought for the things of 
itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil 
thereof." 

It is not pleasant to think about evil, nor evil 
consequences, nevertheless it is high time for us 
to overcome evil. It has had sway long enough 
and must be absolutely destroyed. Then, and 
not until then, will the kingdom of heaven be 
at hand. 

We are living in the present, and can resist 
the devil as Jesus did, think and talk him out 
of business, command him to go. The people 
have been deceived, believed his lies and come 
to grief ; they had other gods. 

Put on the armor of God; take the shield 



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of faith, and stand guard over your human self ; 
deny, denounce and destroy every suggestion 
of a claim that is not absolutely good, be it 
sickness, sorrov^, want, discouragement or 
death. 

Consider vvrhat God has always done for the 
righteous. Jesus prayed for strength to endure 
all things. 

**Now is my soul troubled, ^and what shall I 
say? Father, save me from this hour, but for 
this cause came I unto this hour. Father, 
glorify Thy name. Then came a voice from 
heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and 
will glorify it again. Now is the judgment 
of this world; now shall the prince of this 
world (the devil) be cast out. 

"And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will 
draw all men unto me. 

"I pray not that Thou shouldst take them 
out of the world, but that Thou shouldst keep 
them from evil. 

"Neither pray I for these alone, but for them 
also which shall believe on me through their 
word. 

"These things I have spoken unto you, that 
in me ye might have peace. In the world ye 
shall have tribulation ; but be of good cheer, I 
have overcome the world.'' 

Such glorious consolation, such God-given 
help! 

Blessed Jesus, our hearts overflow with love 
to you for such loving kindness made manifest, 
and for showing us how to work out our own 



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salvation. Glory be to God and to His faith- 
ful Son! 

Divine love will support us on our way, as we 
make straight the pathway for the second 
coming of our elder brother, who has gone 
a long journey, and who will come and live 
with us here on earth when evil is overcome. 

''And I, John, saw the holy city, new Jeru- 
salem coming down from God out of heaven, 
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 

''And I heard a great voice out of heaven say- 
ing. Behold, the tabernacle of God is with 
men, and He will dwell with them, and they 
shall be His people, and God Himself shall be 
with them and be their God. 

"And God shall wipe away all tears from 
their eyes; and there shall be no more death, 
neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there 
be any more pain: for the former things are 
passed away." 

The hearts of men have grown weary with 
watching and they have almost given up watch- 
ing for the coming of Christ. But remember, 
we have not finished the work he gave us to 
do; we are not doing as He did; we have not 
overcome all evil, cast the devil out. 

"For the Son of man is as a man taking a 
far journey, who left his house, and gave au- 
thority to his servants, and to every man his 
work, and commanded the porter to watch." 

When we overcome all evil, heaven will be 
here, and God and Christ will live with us. 

But there is so much to do before that glad 



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time comes. We must rise in rebellion against 
every carnal thought, and know that God only- 
created good. 

Think no evil, do not let despondency occupy 
your mind. 

''Resist the devil and he will flee from you.'' 

Dominion is your birthright; control your 
mind and body. 

''As a man thinketh in his heart so is he." 

The power of mind cannot be denied, and 
now is the time to look well to divine mind. 

Before the second coming of Christ this gos- 
pel will be preached to the whole world : "The 
everlasting gospel to preach unto every nation, 
and kindred, and tongue, and people." 

Looking back and grieving over what has 
passed and what we can never undo, or taking 
thought for the morrow, is bad policy, and 
seldom avails anything; nay, often unfits us 
for present usefulness. "Now is the accepted 
time, now is the day of our salvation." 

We must be up and doing, watching, praying 
and thinking; we are living in eternity, and 
will always have our personality and always 
know ourselves and our loved ones. 

Moses and Elias talked with Jesus at his 
transfiguration. Jesus took Peter, James, and 
John, his brother, up on a high mountain, "And 
was transfigured before them : and his face did 
shine as the sun, and his raiment was white 
as the light." 

I once saw a man of whom the watchers 
said, He is dead. His form and face were like 



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light. I never saw a person so beautiful. 

So many glorious helps have come to me, 
for which I am very thankful. God has been 
so good to me, and is even now very near to 
me, a present help. My God of Love! 

Take possession of your thoughts, control 
your body, govern it; keep your hands from 
taking what does not belong to you, from 
killing; your eyes from lusting after what is 
not good, and your feet from walking in for- 
bidden paths. Be moderate in all things, 
abhor evil, and do good. Ever since Adam and 
Eve believed a lie, and ate the forbidden fruit 
of good and evil has evil been dominant. 

Many new ways are being taught the chil- 
dren of men : that man never fell, that all men 
are perfect, that Christ has come, the imper- 
sonal Christ, that God does not know nor see 
evil and so on. Jesus said, ''I and my Father 
are one. He spoke to bad, fleshly-minded 
men after this fashion. 

''If God were your Father, ye would love 
me; for I proceed forth and come from God; 
neither come I of myself, but he sent me. 

''Ye are of your father the devil, and the 
lusts of your father ye will do. When he 
speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he 
is a liar, and the father of it. 

"He that is of God heareth God's words : ye 
therefore hear them not, because ye are not of 
God. 

"O generation of vipers, how can ye, being 



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evil, speak good things, for out of the abund- 
ance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 

"But woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, 
hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of 
heaven against men : for ye neither go in your- 
selves, neither suffer ye them that are entering 
to go in." 

He called them blind guides, fools, whited 
sepulchres, v^ho strained at a gnat and swal- 
lowed a camel. Never did a man speak 
plainer to bad people than did Jesus. To him 
Judas was a devil and Peter Satan, because 
they were not doing right. In no other way 
can the world be saved than by taking Jesus 
as the way, and by doing the works that he 
did. 

''Submit yourselves therefore to God. Re- 
sist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw 
nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. 
Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify 
your hearth, ye double-minded." 

When he sent out his twelve apostles he 
said, ''Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the 
midst of wolves; be ye therefore wise as ser- 
pents and harmless as doves. 

"But beware of men : for they will deliver 
you up to the councils, and they will scourge 
you in their synagogues." 

Many other things did he tell them that will 
apply to us to-day. He warned them against 
men that did not believe in His Father, He told 
them to fear not those who would kill the 
body, but are not able to kill the soul; rather 



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fear those who are able to destroy both soul 
and body. 

What and where is hell ? I do not know ; the 
dictionary defines it as the place of the devil, 
and the damned. The words of an old song 
comes to me : 

"Bob Ingersol says there is no hell, 
I would like to know how Bob can tell." 

Sin brings torment to the sinner. Tares rep- 
resent the devil's crop that is to be burned up 
as chaff, reduced to its native nothingness. All 
evil, sin, sickness, sorrow and death come from 
its father the devil, God's enemy, the carnal 
mind. Inconceivable suffering was made mani- 
fest in Judas' case ; he became greatly agitated 
and tried to undo the mischief, but as he could 
not, he in despair cast the money down and 
hung himself. Jonah suffered for disobeying 
God, and said, "I cried by reason of mine afflic- 
tion unto the Lord, and he heard me ; out of the 
belly of hell." 

I believe heaven and hell are within us, our 
consciousness of good or evil. 

'Tonder the path of thy feet, and let all 
thy ways be established. 

'Turn not to the right hand nor to the left : 
remove thy foot from evil." 

God is Love ; God is Spirit ; God is ever pres- 
ent, all-seeing, all-hearing, all-powerful. All 
things were made by Him; and without Him 
•was nothing. 



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The devil is defined by Jesus as a liar and 
the father of lies. ''When he speaketh a lie, he 
speaketh of his own, for he is a liar, and the 
father of it." 

Therefore he is a falsehood, the enemy that 
soweth tares. 

"And these are they that fell by the wayside, 
where the word is sown; but when they have 
heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh 
away the word that was sown in their hearts.'' 

The parable of the tares is very full of truth. 

The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a 
man which sowed good seed in his field: 

''But while men slept, his enemy came and 
sowed tares among the wheat, and went his 
way. 

"But when the blade was sprung up, and 
brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares 
also. 

"So the servants of the householder came 
and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow 
good seed in thy field? From whence then 
hath it tares? 

"He said unto him, An enemy hath done 
this. The servant said unto him. Wilt thou 
then that we go and gather them up? 

"But he said. Nay; lest while ye gather up 
the tares ye root up also the wheat with them. 

"Let both grow together until the harvest; 
and in the time of harvest I will say to the 
reapers. Gather ye together first the tares, and 
bind them in bundles to burn them : but gather 
the wheat into my barn." 



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Before God's kingdom comes on earth, all 
that the enemy has sown will be gathered up 
and burned as chaff. It is time for all peoples 
and tongues to begin to root out of their 
minds and consciousness the works of the 
devil, to take the truth as Jesus taught it ; then 
will we hear the good news from heaven. 

"Now is come salvation, and strength, and 
the kingdom of our God, and the power of his 
Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast 
down, which accused them before our God 
day and night." 

The father of lies will fall before the knowl- 
edge of truth. 

''Ye shall know the truth, and the truth 
shall make you free.'' 



FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE. 

''And they brought unto him also infants, 
that he would touch them ; but when his dis- 
ciples saw it, they rebuked them. 

"But Jesus called them unto him, and said, 
Suffer little children to come unto me, and for- 
bid them not: for of such is the kingdom of 
God. 

"Verily I say unto you. Whosoever shall not 
receive the kingdom of God as a little child 
shall in no wise enter therein.'' 

Dear reader, all helpless little infants are 
not alike. It is often said that all young babies 



OF HEALING AND LIVING n 

look alike ; true they all have the same appear- 
ance in many respects when they are first born, 
but ere long their faces become very different. 

**Many men of many minds/' A mighty 
truth stares the world in the face, and it be- 
hooves all people to consider well the point at 
issue. Good soil, good seed, good thoughts, 
pure love, and a heavenly atmosphere are 
necessary to produce a perfect baby. It is de- 
plorable to contemplate the beginning of a 
little child, born into this world with propen- 
sities to be overcome, traits of character that 
woud make any human being blush to ac- 
knowledge. 

''So God created man in his own image, in 
the image of God created he him ; male and fe- 
male created he them. 

"And God blessed them, and God said unto 
them. Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish 
the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion 
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of 
the air, and over every living thing that moveth 
upon the earth." 

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in 
the latter times some shall depart from the 
faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doc- 
trines of devils. 

"Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their 
consciences seared with a hot iron. 

"Forbidding to marry, and commending to 
abstain from meats which God hath created to 
be received with thanksgiving of them which 
believe and know the Truth." 



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O! could I but write with a diamond on 
the hearts and minds of every young man and 
woman, of the grave and enduring responsi- 
bilities they are entering into, when they are 
united in holy matrimony, pledging to live and 
love till death. Yes, write what I have learned. 
May divine love be at every wedding to turn 
the water into wine, and to sanctify the union 
of two made one. Love is the fulfilling of the 
law; pure, unselfish love. 

''Have ye not read, that he which made them 
of the beginning made them male and female, 
and said, 

''For this cause shall a man leave father and 
mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they 
twain shall be one flesh. 

"Wherefore they are no more twain, but one 
flesh. What therefore God hath joined to- 
gether let no man put asunder." 

Consider how different we all are. Why is 
it? Our thoughts, our way of living, and our 
very beginning have much to do with it. The 
face is an index to character; meekness, good- 
ness, vice, and besottedness are written there- 
on. 

We are born with inherent characteristics. 
The mother that is heavenly minded invariably 
rears the healthiest and the best children. 

Nothing impure should be told to children, 
or transmitted in any way. Their young minds 
are very susceptible and impressions made in 
youth are often lasting; therefore be exceed- 
ingly careful to sow good seed that will bring 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 73 

forth fruit of rare quality. Teach them to love 
God, to be good, kind, honest, loving, thought- 
ful, and obedient. 

*'It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh 
profiteth nothing; the words that I speak unto 
you, they are Spirit, and they are life. 

^*For I have given you an example, that ye 
shall do as I have done to you." 

**There is therefore now no condemnation to 
them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not 
after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 

'Tor the law of the Spirit of life in Christ 
Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin 
and death. 

''For what the law could not do, in that 
it was weak through the flesh, God sending 
His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and 
for sin, condemned sin in the flesh. 

"That the righteousness of the law might be 
fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but 
after the Spirit. 

'Tor they that are after the flesh do mind the 
things of the flesh; but they that are after 
the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 

'Tor to be carnally minded is death; but to 
be spiritually minded is life and peace. 

"Because the carnal mind is enmity against 
God: for it is not subject to the law of God, 
neither indeed can be. 

"So then they that are in flesh cannot please 
God. 

"But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, 
if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. 



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Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, 
he is none of his. 

''And if Christ be in you, the body is dead 
because of sin ; but the Spirit is life because of 
righteousness. 

''But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus 
from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up 
Christ from the dead shall also quicken your 
mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in 
you. 

"Therefore, brethen, we are debtors, not to 
the flesh, to live after the flesh. 

"For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: 
but if you through the Spirit do mortify the 
deeds of the body, ye shall live.'' 

The redemption of the body is a present pos- 
sibility, and in no other way can heaven on 
earth be attained. We must be born in the 
Spirit; then let us that are old begin to-day 
to live as becometh the children of God, 
and teach the little children the way to holi- 
ness. 

Nicodemus said to Jesus, "Rabbi, we know 
that thou art a teacher come from God : for no 
man can do these miracles that thou doest, 
except God be with him. 

"Jesus answered and said unto him. Verily, 
verily I say unto thee. Except a man be born 
again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.'' 

Jesus also said, "He that believeth on me, 
the works that I do shall he do also; and 
greater works than these shall he do; because 
I go unto my Father," 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 75 

Bring to our remembrance all things that 
Jesus taught. 

I can testify to a truth that made me a good, 
happy child and has been a great stay to me 
through a long, busy life, and that truth is 
that I lived many years before I ever heard 
about the things that Jesus came to save the 
world from. Why should children learn about 
the things that Jesus condemned, that He came 
to destroy? Why learn only to unlearn? 

Dearly beloved, Jesus taught the way; fol- 
low him. 

Jesus was born in Bethlehem a little baby. 
He grew in the knowledge of God, and at the 
age of twelve years was about His Father's 
business, teaching and being taught. His 
Father, God, was a God of Love. Jesus was 
man before He was tempted of the devil. 

Jesus said, ''Get thee hence, Satan: for it is 
written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God 
and him only shalt thou serve.'' 

All on earth must serve God. All power 
apart from God must be abolished. 

Jesus said, "Now is the judgment of this 
world: now shall the prince of this world be 
cast out.*' 

For God sent His Son into the world not to 
condemn the world ; but that the world through 
Him might be saved. Therefore, cast out of 
consciousness all evil; know good only, and 
be saved from all that is not of God. 

It is an awful sin to believe that God is re- 
sponsible for all evil, or that he created any- 



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thing that is not good. Confusion has pre- 
vailed ever since the serpent lie entered into 
the minds of the children of men. 

"But of the tree of the knowledge of good 
and evil, thou shalt not eat of it : for in the 
day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely 
die/' 

Keep in mind that the ''wages of sin is 
death." We are told not to let sin reign in 
our mortal body. 

This Good Friday, April 14, 1911, means 
much to me, the anniversary of Jesus' cruci- 
fixion. His history is so wonderful, so full of 
love made manifest to man. His short stay on 
earth showed all men how to live. 

About eighteen hundred years have passed 
since Jesus was crucified. Is the world saved 
from sin, sickness, all evil, death and the grave? 
No. Remember, ponder, bring to mind what 
Jesus taught and the works he did; He is the 
way. 

God sent Jesus into the world, "that the 
world through him might be saved.'' He said, 
''Verily, verily, I say unto you. He that be- 
lieveth on me, the works that I do he shall 
do also ; and greater works than these shall he 
do ; because I go unto my Father." 

When He sent the seventy disciples out He 
told them, "Go your ways; behold, I send you 
forth as lambs among wolves. And the sev- 
enty returned again with joy, saying, Lord, 
even the devils are subject unto us through 
Thy name." 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 77 

To the twelve He said: ''And as ye go, 
preach, saying the kingdom of heaven is at 
hand. 

''Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the 
dead, cast out devils : freely ye have received, 
freely give.'* 

He told the Pharisees that the kingdom of 
God Cometh not by observation. 

"Neither shall they say, Lo here ! or lo 
there ! for behold, the kingdom of God is within 
you." 

Jesus said: "I am the way, the truth, and 
the life : no man cometh unto the Father but 
by me. 

"Behold, the hour cometh, yea is now come, 
that ye shall be scattered, every man to his 
own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am 
not alone, because the Father is with me. 

"These things I have spoken unto you, that 
in me ye might have peace. In the world 
ye shall have tribulation : but be of good cheer, 
I have overcome the world. 

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that 
heareth my word, and believeth on Him that 
sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not 
come into condemnation; but is passed from 
death unto life.'* 

"For this corruptible must put on incorrup- 
tion, and this mortal must put on immortal- 
ity. 

"So when this corruptible shall have put 
on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put 
on immortality, then shall be brought to pass 



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the saying that is written, Death is swallowed 
up in victory. 

''O, death, where is thy sting? O, grave, 
where is thy victory? 

'The sting of death is sin ; and the strength 
of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which 
giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus 
Christ. 

"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is 
death." 

These proofs that Jesus gave the world are 
imperative, final, finished, and will in time be 
understood, lived, and will bring in the eternal 
reign of heaven on earth. 

"Search the Scriptures ; for in them ye think 
ye have eternal life : and they are they which 
testify of me." 

"And I saw another angel in the midst of 
heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach 
unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every 
nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people." 

Perfection can be attained ; there is a way. 

Jesus said: "Be ye therefore perfect even as 
your Father which is in heaven is perfect." 

The science of right living is the giant need 
of the world, and must begin with every in- 
dividual. This is the all-important question : 
How shall I live to be saved from sin ? 

"He that overcometh shall inherit all things; 
and I will be his God and he shall be my son." 

The beginning of a new scientific way of 
living consists not in becoming great as the 
world measures greatness, but in becoming 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 79 

good. Don't you know that it is high time 
to learn how to Hve, not how to die? Your 
grandfather, it is true, lived well to die well; 
but to live to overcome death and the grave is 
our duty to God and to ourselves. 

The time is to come when "the former things 
are to pass away." 

Therefore, it is time to measure our possi- 
bilities for the future advancement of scientific 
living. 

Home is a good type of heaven on earth, a 
union of male and female natures combined 
in one; studying the spiritual, moral, mental, 
and physical conditions that will raise the 
standard of true citizenship. 

Parental obligations are of great moment. 
Matrimony has attained a very uncertain foot- 
ing; people plunge into it without forethought, 
without considering the binding and enduring 
obligations of married life. 

The rearing of children is of great conse- 
quence, and it should be the highest ambition 
of every father and mother on earth to bring 
up their offsprings in the way they should 

go. 

The sacredness of parental duties should be 
taught our young people and impressed upon 
their minds at an early age. 

The light of right living is shining in the 
darkness, and slowly but surely showing the 
children of men how to live as so ordered in 
the beginning. 

It is wisdom to live right, and to think more 



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about living and less about the last enemy, 
death. 

''In the way of righteousness is life; and in 
the pathway thereof is no death/' 

Great care has been taken to raise fine stock, 
fine poultry and good crops, but the better part 
has been neglected: the raising of good hus- 
bands and wives. A good noble-minded girl 
of fourteen told an old teacher when asked 
what she expected to excel in : ''I want to 
make some man a good wife. 

Within the last thirty years there have been 
so many divorces and so much said about un- 
happy married life, a most deplorable condi- 
tion; a condition that needs attention; there 
should be steps taken immediately to remedy 
this rapidly growing evil. 

Where does the fault lie? What can be done 
to remedy this sad state of affairs? I can re- 
member when it was a rare thing to hear of 
a divorce, and it was considered a disgrace. 

Home is the dearest spot on earth, when 
father, mother, sister and brother hold each 
other dear. 

Matrimony is a great event in one's life ; two 
young people, starting out in the world to 
build up a home, to raise a family, to love and 
be loved. 

What is home without a baby? Sweet little 
darlings ! May they begin with the purest de- 
sires, the fondest love, and grow daily into 
higher and purer men and women. 



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JESUS CHRIST PRACTICE. 

Dear heart, it is exceedingly easy for you 
to become familiar with Jesus' life. The New 
Testament gives a full account of His earthly 
career. 

"For He must reign, till He hath put all 
enemies under His feet. 

''The last enemy that shall be destroyed is 
death." 

After the resurrection He appeared to the 
disciples and said: ''All power is given unto 
me in heaven and in earth.'' 

Jesus said: "I am the way, the truth, and 
the life : no man cometh unto the Father, but 
by me. 

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that be- 
lieveth on me, the works that I do shall he do 
also ; and greater works than these shall he do ; 
because I go to the Father." 

God created all things, and man He created 
in His own image. 

Heaven on earth was lost by knowing evil, 
by partaking of the knowledge of "good and 
evil." And there is no other way to regain 
heaven, eternal harmony, but to know only 
good as of God, and to take Jesus as our ex- 
ample. His Father sent Him to save that 
which was lost, and to show all men how to 
live, and how to do the works that He did. He 
was tempted by^he devil (all evil). 



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''Then the devil leaveth Him, and behold, 
angels came and ministered unto Him." 

Just so will it be with all of us; when we 
send all evil out of our lives, disease, and sick- 
ness included, then the kingdom of heaven will 
be at hand. 

Slowly but surely is the world returning to 
the way Jesus taught. Thousands are look- 
ing to God as the great Physician. When 
Jesus sent out the twelve apostles He* told 
them to ^'preach, heal the sick, cleanse the 
lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils." All 
manner of evils were to be overcome by the 
knowledge of ever-present good. Ages have 
rolled by, generation after generation has 
passed away, and yet we are far removed from 
the millennium, or heaven on earth. But we 
all believe that some time and in some way that 
promised state will come to the children of 
men. 

''And God shall wipe away all tears from 
their eyes; and there shall be no more death, 
neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there 
be any more pain, for the former things are 
passed away." 

These things are to come to pass when all 
people learn to do as Jesus taught them. There 
are about two hundred denominations, all 
founded on the Bible. But there is only one 
true and perfect way, and Jesus lived and 
taught that way. Then hear the old, old story 
and learn to live. 

Jesus and the apostles healed sickness and 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 83 

sin, for all that is not of God comes from the 
same source, from the devil. 

He said to the boasting Jews, ''If God were 
your Father, ye would have me : for I pro- 
ceed forth and come from God; neither came 
I of myself but He sent me. Why do ye not 
understand my speech? even because ye cannot 
hear my word.'' 

Man fell from his God-given estate; for- 
feited his dominion over every living thing 
by hearing and believing the serpent lie. 

The serpent lie seemed real, true and good to 
Eve and Adam when they first heard it, but 
in a very short time they learned that it was 
of the devil. 

Now is the time to begin to undo all that 
the serpent lie has done from the beginning. 
God sent Jesus to save the world from all evil. 
He said to the Jews that believed on Him : "If 
ye continue in my word, then are ye my dis- 
ciples indeed. 

''And ye shall know the truth, and the truth 
shall make you free.'' 

We are indeed true disciples if we continue 
in Jesus' word, follow in his footsteps, and do 
as He did. 

He said : "I and my Father are one. 

"A new commandment I give unto you, that 
ye love one another ; as I have loved you, that 
ye also love one another. 

"By this shall all men know that ye are my 
disciples, if ye have love one to another." 

When asked which is the greatest command- 



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ment, He said : '^Thou shall love the Lord thy 
God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, 
and with all thy mind. 

''This is the first and great commandment. 

''And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt 
love thy neighbor as thyself. 

"On these two commandments hang all the 
law and the prophets." 

To do the works that Jesus did we must be 
like Him, meek, kind, patient, loving, tender, 
altogether lovely, perfect as God. But this 
great work cannot be accomplished in a day, 
nevertheless, we can begin to-day to keep His 
commandments, and to follow His example. 
Like our divine exemplar we must seek to 
''destroy the works of the devil." 

His mission was to teach the children of 
men how to live, how to serve God, and how 
to destroy sin, sickness and death. 

We must know that God is love, that He 
created only good. 

"And God saw everything that He made, 
and beheld it was very good." 

After Jesus prevailed over the devil (all 
evil) He preached the sermon on the mount. 

His preaching taught the healing power. He 
commended the centurion for his great faith 
in His healing power. He did not do many 
mighty things in some places on account of the 
unbelief of the people. 

"They that are whole have no need of a 
physician, but they that are sick. 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 85 

*'I come not to call the righteous, but sin- 
ners to repentance/' 

After the resurrection He said : ''All power is 
given unto me in heaven and in earth. 

*'Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, 
baptizing them in the name of the Father and 
of the Son and the Holy Ghost. 

''Teaching them to observe all things what- 
soever I commanded you : and, lo, I am with 
you always, even unto the end of the world." 

These words are true, and now is the ac- 
cepted time to learn about Jesus. 

'T am the way, the truth, and the life: no 
man cometh unto the Father but by me.'' 

Paul, like ourselves, preached Christ. 

'Tor I am determined not to know anything 
among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him cruci- 
fied. 

*Tor ye are yet carnal : for whereas there 
is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, 
are ye not carnal, and walk as men. 

''For while one saith, I am for Paul, another 
I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal? 

"Who, then, is Paul, and who is Apollos, but 
ministers by whom ye believe, even as the 
Lord gave to men. 

"For other foundation can no man lay than 
that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 

"Let this mind be in you, which was also in 
Christ Jesus. 

"Put on the whole armor of God, that ye 
may be able to stand against the wiles of the 
devil. 



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'Tor we wrestle not against flesh and blood, 
but against principalities, against powers, 
against the rulers of the darkness of this world, 
against spiritual wickedness in high places." 

Paul has a very clear idea of what our duty 
is, and of the healing, saving power as taught 
by Jesus. He gives us, in the eighth chapter 
of Romans, a most helpful lesson. The two 
minds are defined, the carnal mind and the 
divine mind. 

"To be carnally minded is death; but to be 
spiritually minded is life and peace. 

"Because the carnal mind is enmity against 
God: for it is not subject to the law of God, 
neither, indeed, can be." 

Remember, the carnal mind is God's enemy, 
and to have the mind that was in Jesus is to 
be spiritually minded. 

"As a man thinketh in his heart so is he." 

Much has been said about the power of mind. 
Everybody knows that mind is the motive 
power, and that it behooves us to look to a 
pure mind to be spiritually minded, which is 
life and peace. 

"Let this mind be in you which was in Christ 
Jesus." 

Study earnestly His life, try to form a com- 
plete conception of His work. His teaching. 
His healing. His preaching. His trials. His 
victory over the world, the flesh and the devil 
(all evil), His personality and His miracles. 
Call to mind that if we believe on Him we 
can do the works that He did. Only in the 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 87 

full understanding of His religion can the rest- 
less heart and mind of man find satisfaction 
and salvation. Supreme intelligence has given 
us an example to follow. 

"And a voice from heaven saying, This is 
my beloved Son in v^hom I am well pleased." 

Blessed Son of God ! Dominion was His 
birthright, to do His Father's will. Glorify 
His name and His work who was given to re- 
deem, to save the world. 

Paul said: ''I know and am persuaded by the 
Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of 
itself: but to him that esteemeth anything un- 
clean, to him it is unclean." 

''God saw everything that He had made and, 
behold, it was very good." 

"All things were made by Him (God), and 
without Him was not anything made." 

In the beginning all was good; man fell by 
knowing "good and evil." 

Jesus came from the Father to show all men 
how to serve God and not mammon, to be 
good. 

He spake with authority on all manner of 
evil. We can do likewise if w*e only know the 
truth. 

The time is at hand. 

I think that you and I believe in God, and 
that we think Jesus was a good man, a worthy 
example, and that it is worth while to try to 
be like Him, and to try to do the works that 
He did. 

So far so good ; then, let us clasp hands, and 



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try as far as possible to walk in the straight 
and narrow way. ''Verily I say unto you, 
Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of 
God as a little child shall in no wise enter 
therein. 

''Neither shall they say, Lo here! or lo 
there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is 
within you. 

"Suffer little children to come unto me ; and 
forbid them not ; for of such is the kingdom of 
God. 

''Consider the lilies of the field, how they 
grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and 
yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed 
like one of these." 

We must work out our own salvation ; un- 
learn much that we have learned from the 
doctrines of men. Jesus reproved the would- 
be wise men of old, the great men among 
men. 

"Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of 
you, saying: 

"This people draweth nigh unto me with 
their mouths, and honoreth me with their lips ; 
but their hearts are far from me. 

"But in vain do they worship me, teaching 
for doctrines the commandments of men. 

"Beware of false prophets, which come to 
you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are 
ravening wolves.'' 

To be like God's Son, Jesus Christ, is our 
only salvation. 

It would be useless for me to tell you there 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 89 

is no power apart from God, no sin, no sick- 
ness, no pain, no sorrow, no crying, no death. 
To overcome them is our work. 

"As I heard a loud voice saying in heaven. 
Now is come salvation, and strength and the 
kingdom of God, and the power of His Christ: 
for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, 
which accused them before our God day and 
night. 

''And they overcame Him by the blood of 
the lamb, and by the sword of their testimony ; 
and they loved not their lives unto death. 

''Therefore rejoice ye heavens, and ye that 
dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the 
earth and of the sea! for the devil is come 
down unto you, having great wrath, because he 
knoweth that he hath but a short time. 

"And when the dragon saw that he was cast 
unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which 
brought forth the man child. 

"And to the woman were given two wings 
of a great eagle, that she might fly into the 
wilderness, into her place, where she is nour- 
ished for a time and times, and half a time, 
from the face of the serpent. 

"And the serpent cast out of his mouth water 
as a flood after the woman, that he might cause 
her to be carried away of the flood. 

"And the earth helped the woman, and the 
earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the 
flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. 

"And the dragon was wroth with the woman, 
and went to make war with the remnant of her 



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seed, which keep the commandments of God, 
and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." 

After the crucifixion and resurrection Jesus 
was seen by many people. 

Afterward He appeared unto the eleven as 
they sat at meat, and upbraided them because 
of their unbelief and hardness of heart, be- 
cause they believed not them which had seen 
Him after He was risen. 

''And He said unto them, Go ye into all 
the world, and preach the gospel to every crea- 
ture. 

''He that believeth and is baptized shall be 
saved ; but he that believeth not shall be 
damned. 

"And these signs shall follow them that be- 
lieve; in my name shall they cast out devils; 
they shall speak with new tongues; they shall 
take up serpents ; and if they drink any deadly 
thing, it shall not hurt them ; they shall lay 
their hands on the sick, and they shall recover." 

So then after the Lord had spoken unto 
them, He was received up into heaven, and 
sat on the right hand of God. 

"And they went forth, and preached every- 
where, the Lord walking with them, and con- 
firming the word with signs following." 

We can do to-day the works that Jesus did, 
for He said we could. 

"And these signs follow them that believe." 

Remember, all who believe, not just the 
eleven, but all that believe. The children that 
are young, and those that are unborn will 



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help bring in the millennium, the reign of 
eternal harmony ; heaven on earth. Then why 
teach them to look to other gods. This gen- 
eration will see great and wonderful miracles 
performed, dominion made manifest. 

God said, ''Have dominion over the fish of 
the sea and over the fowl of the air, and over 
everything that moveth upon the earth.'' 

The leaven of truth has been working 
through all ages and will continue to work 
until every tongue shall confess that Jesus 
Christ is the way, the Son of God. 

In these latter days of error many are over- 
coming self, the lusts and diseases of the flesh, 
by having the mind that Jesus had, thinking 
good thoughts, and learning how to live. We 
must be just and give credit to whom credit 
is due. The hundreds of religious creeds and 
doctrines that have been founded on the Bible 
have all pointed to salvation, to God and to 
heaven ; without doubt much has been in the 
right direction. 

''Render therefore unto Caesar the things 
which are Caesar's; and unto God the things 
which are God's." 

Jesus told John not to forbid the man that 
cast out devils because he did not follow them. 

'Torbid him not : for there is no man which 
shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly 
speak evil of me. 

"For he that is not against us is on our part. 
For whosoever shall give you a cup of water- 
to drink in my name, because ye belong to 



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Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose 
his reward. 

*'And whosoever shall offend one of these 
little ones that believe in me, it is better for 
him that a millstone were hanged about his 
neck and he were cast into the sea/' 

There are over two hundred religious creeds 
founded on the Rock. 

Some are nearer right than others; all are 
doing good. I believe Christian Science has 
touched the hem of Christ's garment, and has 
done much good for suffering humanity. Mary 
Eddy has helped the world. "Science and 
Health with Key to the Scriptures'' is a won- 
derful book, and thousands are living as it 
teaches. It was conceived in Mary Eddy's 
mind. She was a good, noble Christian 
woman ; great will be her reward. 

May the light shine brighter until the end of 
all error, not the end of the world. 

''How beautiful upon the mountains are the 
feet of Him that bringeth good tidings, that 
publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings 
of good, that publisheth salvation ; that saith 
unto Zion, thy God reigneth." 

''Then they that feared the Lord spake often 
one to another : and they hearkened and heard 
it, and a book of remembrance was written be- 
fore him for them that feared the Lord, and 
that thought upon His name." 

"In the way of righteousness is life ; and in 
the pathway thereof is no death." 

I am bringing to mind the good old way, 



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the only true way, that Jesus taught, preached 
and lived. 

The Bible is my text book; the New Testa- 
ment especially, as it gives the life of Jesus. 

''And the voice which I heard from heaven 
§pake unto me again and said, Go and 
take the little book which is open in the hand 
of the angel which standeth upon the sea and 
upon the earth. 

''And I went unto the angel, and said unto 
him, Give me the little book. And he said unto 
me, Take it and eat it up; and it shall be in 
thy mouth sweet as honey.'' 

It is sweet to know that Jesus prevailed over 
all evil ; even death and the grave. But to do 
likewise is a bitter thought, very hard to un- 
learn our preconceived ideas, to be born again, 
to make all things new in our consciousness. 
But we will, every one, have to work out our 
salvation here or hereafter, be it ever so bitter. 
If God be for us, we need have no fear. And 
we know that all things work together for good 
to them that love God, to them who are called 
according to His purpose. 

"Nor height, nor depth, nor any other crea- 
ture shall be able to separate us from the love 
of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

"If God be for us, who can be against us?'' 

The "little book" is open for all; nor is it 
hard to understand. Any little child can learn 
the sweet, new, old story of Jesus and His 
love. 

"And I saw another angel, flying in the midst 



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of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to 
preach unto them that dwell on earth, and to 
every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and 
people." 

Jesus often went alone and prayed. He 
gave us the Lord's prayer in His sermon on 
the mount. This sermon should be committed 
to memory by every child of God ; there is food 
in it for every day as we journey from sense 
to soul, from the knowledge of ''good and 
evil" to God, and all good. 



THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM. 

The first plank in my platform is that God 
is a God of love, absolutely good, and that 
Jesus Christ is the Son of God. 

I have taken up arms against all evil as it 
is not of God. It is not my purpose to exalt 
myself, nor to start another denomination. 
God created everything that was 'Very good," 
and that Holy Ghost or Comforter is on earth 
to teach us as was promised by Jesus. "Even 
the spirit of truth whom the world cannot re- 
ceive, because it seeth him not, neither know- 
eth Him ; but ye know Him ; for He dwelleth 
with you and shall be in you." 

"But the Comforter, which is the Holy 
Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, 
He shall teach you all things, and bring all 



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things to your remembrance, whatsoever I 
have said unto you/' 

I listened for the still small voice and take 
the inspired word of the Bible as my guide to 
eternal harmony. I sincerely pray that I may 
bring to your consideration the knowledge of 
God as all in all. 

When the twelve apostles were sent out, 
Jesus told them to preach, saying: ''The king- 
dom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, 
cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out 
devils (evils) ; freely ye have received, freely 
give.'' 

Evil is of human origin; it came not from 
God. 

Jesus told the boasting Jews, '*Ye are of your 
father the devil (evil) and the lusts of your 
fathers ye will do. He was a murderer from 
the beginning and abode not in the truth, be- 
cause there is no truth in him. When he 
speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own : for he 
is a liar, and the father of it." 

"He that is of God heareth God's words; 
ye, therefore, hear them not, because ye are 
not of God." 

''Now we know that God heareth not sin- 
ners; but if any man be a worshipper of God, 
and doeth His will, him He heareth." 

"Thou (God) art of purer eyes than to be- 
hold evil, and canst not look on iniquity." 

Moses' account of creation as given in 
Genesis, first chapter, meets my approval so 
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''And God said, Let us make man in our 
image, after our likeness: and let them have 
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over 
the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and 
over all the earth, and over every creeping 
thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God 
created man in His own image, in the image of 
God created He them; male and female cre- 
ated He them. 

"And blessed them, and God said unto them, 
Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the 
earth, and subdue it/' 

The world is, and we are in it, and our duty 
is to live as best we can, and serve God as 
best we can. 

Men and women are lords of creation ; their 
v/isdom has reached high heaven; they have 
become as gods by knowing good and evil. 

But recollect that man's wisdom is but fool- 
ishness to God. 

What the prophets of God did the prophets 
of men could not do ; there is a limit to human 
strength and power, and knowledge. 

Then what might we not be capable of doing 
if we were endowed with wisdom from heaven? 
Ah! if. we only would accept the ''glorious 
liberty of the children of God," and keep the 
commandments, the Golden Rule and follow 
our Master, the humble Nazarene, who taught 
the way from sense to soul, from evil to God. 
He is Immanuel, God with us, delivering us 
from all evil that flesh is heir to, into the glori- 
ous liberty of the children of God. 



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The children of men, through all ages, have 
done mighty and marvelous works in God's 
name, especially v^hen all human help failed. 

Jesus said when he raised Lazarus from the 
dead : "I know that thou heardest me always/' 

In the same way He stilled the tempest, 
walked on the water, cast out devils (evils), 
healed the sick and did many miracles. 

The Psalmist sang : ''What ailed thee, O thou 
sea, that thou fleddest? Thou Jordan, that 
thou wast driven back? Ye mountains that 
ye skipped like rams, and ye little hills, like 
lambs? Tremble, thou earth, at the presence 
of the Lord, at the presence of the God of 
Jacob." 

Do you ask, as did the Jews, ''Can God fur- 
nish a table in the wilderness?" Yes, God 
can do anything. 

Great and wonderful things have been done 
on earth from generation to generation. I don't 
know how long men and women lived on earth 
before they knew evil, nor where Cain got his 
wife, nor how God made everything; it is 
enough that we are here. 

Moses said, Cain killed his brother and was 
sent out from the presence of God, that he be- 
came a fugitive and a vagabond, that he dwelt 
in the land of Nod on the east edge of Eden 
and got married. 

In olden times men were very much like they 
are to-day. Moses got angry and broke the 
tables of stone that the commandments were 
written on. 



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There was a vail on Moses' face and that vail 
has never been removed. May not that explain 
why he told about the serpent, for his hearers 
would not believe that everything was very 
good? The key to the situation is, we have 
all sinned and fallen far short of the high call- 
ing of the children of God. But the signs of 
the times are that we are returning to God. 

The knowledge of ''good and evil" has not 
saved the world; it has been weighed in the 
balance and found wanting; this uncertain 
state has not satisfied the longing, nor made 
us free from sorrow, sin, pain and death; 
therefore let us turn from the devil (all evil) 
and enter into the straight and narrow way 
that Jesus trod, follow Him and do as He 
commanded. 

Man is human, flesh and blood, and the 
sooner he becomes conscious of self and be- 
gins to root out everything that does not tend 
to good, the better he will be. 

The foundation of bygone days has been 
shaken ; we are on the verge of great changes. 

Be not afraid; let not your heart be 
troubled, for if you trust in God, no harm can 
come to you. 

We are in the last days of error, not in the 
last days of the world; the world, like God, 
will last forever. 

Most of the prophecies have been fulfilled; 
evil has done its worst, has had a wide sway, 
but divine love has marked the hour. 

"There is therefore now no condemnation to 



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them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not 
after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 

"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ 
Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin 
and death. 

''For what the law could not do, in that it 
was weak through the flesh, God sending His 
own Son, in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for 
sin, condemned sin in the flesh. 

"For to be carnally minded is death ; but to 
be spiritually minded is life and peace. 

"Because the carnal mind is enmity against 
God; for it is not subject to the law of God, 
neither indeed can be." 

The carnal mind has caused all the trouble; 
it is God's only enemy. 

It has been well said: "As a man thinketh 
in his heart so is he.'' 

Paul said: "Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall 
not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. 

"For the flesh lustest against the Spirit, and 
the Spirit against the flesh : and these are con- 
trary the one to the other: so that ye cannot 
do the things that ye would. 

"But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not 
under the law. 

"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, 
which are these : Adultery, fornication, unclean- 
ness, lasciviousness. Idolatry, witchcraft, 
hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, se- 
ditions, heresies. Envyings, murders, drunk- 
enness, revilings and such like ; of the which I 
tell before, as I have told you in time past, 



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that they which do such things shall not in- 
herit the kingdom of God. 

*'But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, 
long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith. 
Meekness, temperance : against such there 
is no law. 

'*And they that are Christ's have crucified 
the flesh with the affections and lusts. 

''If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk 
in the Spirit. 

"Let us not be desirous of vainglory, provok- 
ing one another, envying one another." 

In short, abhor evil and be good. The world 
has changed greatly in the last fifty years; in 
the next fifty there will be greater changes, 
for people will be wiser and better, when they 
turn to God and trust Him. 

Learn that evil is within consciousness and 
must be overcome, by being good. Jesus said, 
''Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Be ye 
therefore perfect, even as your Father which 
is in heaven is perfect. 

"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and 
His righteousness; and all these things shall 
be added unto you.'' 

Nahum said: "The chariots shall be with 
flaming torches in the days of His preparation, 
and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken. 

"The chariots shall rage in the streets; they 
shall jostle one against another in the broad 
ways, they shall seem like torches, they shall 
run like the lightnings." 

The old prophet gave a good idea of the 



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machines that are seen flying over the country 
before our eyes. 

''Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and 
see the reward of the wicked. Because thou 
hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even 
the Most High, thy habitation; there shall no 
evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come 
nigh thy dwelling." 



DAYBREAK. 

''And the light shineth in darkness; and the 
darkness comprehended it not. 

"And she shall bring forth a son, and thou 
shalt call His name Jesus ; for He shall save 
His people from their sins." 

Dense darkness so filled this beautiful world 
that the light could not be comprehended ; but 
thanks be to our God of Love, day is breaking; 
dawn is at hand. 

After long years of darkness God sent His 
Son Jesus; but His mission was not under- 
stood by the people of His age. 

The leaven of truth has been working for 
eighteen hundred years ; the light has never 
gone out, nor never will cease to shine, until 
the darkness comprehends it. 

An apprehension of Him is life eternal, sal- 
vation from sin, sickness and death. 

But ''the world knew Him not." The knowl- 
edge of ''good and evil" caused all the trouble, 



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the serpent lie; therefore, why not turn from 
it to the knowledge of ever-present eternal 
good? God with us. 

The wise men behold the morning beams, 
and are being led to see that the science of 
Jesus' teaching and living and healing will 
usher in the full radiance of day. Faith in 
good, and disbelief in evil will work wonders 
for suffering humanity. 

''Ye cannot serve God and mammon." The 
''great dragon" must be cast out of conscious- 
ness, that old serpent which deceived the 
world, before the full risen day of harmony 
will be comprehended and right shall reign 
forever. 

Jesus said to the boasting Jews: "Why do 
ye not understand my speech? even because 
ye cannot hear my word. 

"Ye are of your father the devil, and the 
lusts in your father ye will do." 

Time in its flight has lost sight of life as of 
God, and is looking to death as the way to 
heaven ; death is an enemy to be overcome. 

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is 
death. 

Why did Methuselah die? Because he be- 
lieved, as did Adam and Eve, the serpent, when 
he said : "Ye shall not surely die." 

God had said, "Ye shall not eat of it, neither 
shall ye touch it, lest ye die." 

"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." 

"For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ 
shall all be made alive." 



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God created everything. 

''And God saw everything that He had made 
and, behold, it was very good." 

The creation of Adam from dust came not 
from God; it is a false concept, conceived by 
Moses, to account for the existence of evil. 

"Awake to righteousness and sin not." The 
light of Jesus' saving power is being compre- 
hended. 

In the days of Jesus there lived a family of 
three at Bethany: Lazarus, Mary and Martha. 
They had seen much of His healing, and when 
Lazarus was taken sick his sisters sent word 
to the Master, saying: ''Lord, behold, he whom 
Thou lovest is sick." 

Grief had overtaken the bereaved sisters, 
and many of the Jews wept with them. Martha 
heard that Jesus was coming and she went to 
meet Him, saying: ''Lord, if thou hadst been 
here my brother had not died." 

Jesus said: ''Thy brother shall rise again." 

She answered: 'T know that he shall rise 
again in the resurrection at the last day." 

Then said Jesus : "I am the resurrection and 
the life: he that believeth in me, though he 
were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever 
liveth and believeth in me shall never die. 
Believeth thou this?" 

Yes, and to-day I believe every word of it. 
God sent Him into the world to save it from 
sin. Old things will be no more and the new 
heaven and earth will be opened to our eyes. 

"Come unto me all ye that labor and are 



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heavy ladened, and I will give you rest. Take 
my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am 
meek and lowly in heart : and ye shall find rest 
unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and 
my burden is light.'' 

He went about all Galilee teaching in the 
synagogues, preaching the gospel and healing 
all manner of sickness and all manner of dis- 
ease. 

''They brought unto Him all sick people that 
were taken with divers diseases and torments, 
and those which were possessed with devils, 
and those which were lunatic, and those that 
had the palsy; and He healed them." 

After Martha talked with Jesus, she went 
and called Mary, who came to Him, and fell 
down at His feet, saying, "Lord if Thou hadst 
been here, my brother had not died." 

Jesus was touched and He wept with them. 
And He asked, "Where have ye laid him? 
They said unto him, Lord, come and see." 

They reasoned among themselves as they 
walked to the grave. ''Could not this man, 
which opened the eyes of the blind, have 
caused that even this man should not have 
died?" 

The grave was a cave, and a stone lay upon 
it. 

Jesus said: "Take ye away the stone. 
Martha, the sister of him that was dead saith 
unto Him, Lord by this time he stinketh : for 
he hath been dead four days. 

"Jesus saith unto her^ Saith I not unto you 



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that if thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see 
the glory of God? 

''Then they took away the stone from the 
place where the dead was laid. And Jesus 
lifted up His eyes, and said. Father, I thank 
Thee that Thou hast heard me. 

"And I know that Thou hearest me always ; 
but because of the people which stand by I said 
it, that they may believe that Thou hast sent 
me. 

*'And when He thus had spoken, He cried 
with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. 

"And he that was dead came forth/' 

Jesus' science of healing and saving never 
failed Him. He was the most scientific man that 
ever walked on earth, and His science is 
founded on a perfect principle. A science that 
we can all learn and demonstrate. The "little 
book,'' the New Testament, contains it all. 

"Verily, verily, I say unto you. He that be- 
lieveth on me, the works that I do shall he do 
also; and greater works than these shall he 
do ; because I go to my Father." 

Mary's life story is an example of what truth 
can do for sinners. At one time she was a 
"strange woman," of immoral status. On one 
occasion Jesus was the guest of Simon, a Phari- 
see. While they were at meal Mary came in, 
intent on showing her affection, reverence 
and adoration for her Saviour, the friend of 
the fallen and the friendless. Jesus reclined on 
a couch after the fashion of that age. Mary 
Magdalene, as she has been since called, ap- 



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proached Him, breaking an alabaster jar of 
costly, perfumed sandal oil. She washed His 
feet with her tears, anointed them, and wiped 
them with her long, loose tresses. 

Simon did not approve of her actions and 
thought to himself that Jesus, a prophet, should 
spurn such a woman. Jesus, divining his 
thought, answered with a short parable. 

''Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. 
And he saith, Master say on." 

He described two debtors, one held for a 
large amount and one for a small sum, both of 
whom were released by their creditor. 

"Which of them will love most?'' 

And Simon replied, ''I suppose that he to 
whom he forgave most. And He said unto 
him, thou hast rightly judged." 

Jesus knew Mary very well, and He declared 
that her affection and love were appreciated 
since they sprang from pure motives. He 
brought out this fact, well worthy of note. 
Mary had done what the self-righteous host 
had overlooked: To wash and oil his guest's 
feet, a special Oriental courtesy. Jesus turned 
to Mary and said: ''Her sins which are many 
are forgiven, for she loved much." 

They that sat with Him said within them- 
selves: "Who is this that forgives sins also? 

"And He said to the woman, Thy faith hath 
saved thee ; go in peace." 

Divine love has always provided for the 
loving, trusting children of men, when they 
came to Him in perfect faith. Poor, suffering 



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humanity needs to learn the lesson that the 
Magdalene learned : To come to Jesus knowing 
He is the Son of God, the Saviour of the 
world. 

*'For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ 
Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin 
and death. 

"For if ye live after the flesh ye shall die : but 
if ye through the spirit do mortify the deeds 
of the body ye shall live." 

The "still, small voice'' of eternal truth has 
ever been calling, but in the darkness of the 
carnal mind God's enemy has clamored so loud 
that the voice could not be heard. 

"For to be carnally minded is death; but to 
be spiritually minded is life and peace. 

"For as many as are led by the Spirit of 
God, they are the sons of God." 

In the beginning God created every good 
thing, male and female, and gave them do- 
minion over the earth. 

Why did man forfeit his God-given power? 
Simply because he turned to other gods, be- 
lieved the serpent. All humanity has become 
poor worms of the dust and of few days. 

Ah! turn from believing the serpent and 
learn of Jesus ; become a child of God, and be 
free from the wages of sin. After Mary Mag- 
dalene knew that Jesus was the Christ, she 
never forgot to be grateful. After the seven 
devils were cast out of her (seven sins), she 
was a pure, good, loving follower of the meek, 
lowly Nazarene. She was at the cross, and at 



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the sepulchre before dayHght, and she dis- 
covered that Jesus was not there. 

The slave of sin must get the better of it. 
Quit sinning; let the thief steal no more, and 
daily ascend in the scale of health, happiness 
and prosperity. Enslavement to passion, 
hatred, jealousy, selfishness, revenge, dissipa- 
tion and the like, will crush out everything 
that is worth living for, and ere long will, if 
not overcome, crush out health and happiness. 
''Resist evil and it will flee from you." 

Healing sin and sickness are the same thing, 
and require the same method ; as is seen in the 
New Testament. 



SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 

"The Pharisees also with the Sadducees 
came, and tempting desired Him (Jesus) that 
He would shew them a sign from heaven. 

''He said, O, ye hypocrites, ye can discern 
the face of the sky ; but can ye not discern the 
signs of the times?" 

The future outlook is, mdeed, very good; 
many, many of the prophecies have been ful- 
filled; many of the woes have passed; we are 
a most intelligent, prosperous people, living 
in a blessed generation. We cannot be too 
thankful to our God of love and to Jesus for 
being permitted to live in this wonderful age, 



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in the time of God's preparation. Never were 
there such wonderful, scientific inventions- 
made manifest through human intelHgence. 
And in the next fifty years this world will be 
a perfect joy, a Garden of Eden. God's chil- 
dren are coming into their rightful heritage. 
The serpent, the father of lies, has almost run 
his race. Therefore the knowledge of good 
will be recognized, the fear of all evil and limi- 
tation will be no more. 

Fear, shame, nakedness, want, pain and death 
came by believing the serpent. Now the time 
has fully come to turn his lies on him, and to 
assert our God-given rights, in the name of 
God Almighty. Freedom, and dominion be- 
longs to us as God's children. 

God sent Jesus to show tb'^ whole world how 
to live, how to treat the devii and bad men, 
how to destroy all evil. 

Our work is to take Him as an example and 
show forth as He did what we are capable of 
doing, in perfect faith and understanding of 
God. Doubt not one word that Jesus said ; 
hear the following: ''God so loved the world 
that He gave His only begotten Son, that 
whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, 
but have everlasting life. 

''For God sent not His Son into the world 
to condemn the world, but that the world 
through Him might be saved. 

"Verily, verily, I say unto you. He that hear- 
eth my word and believeth on Him that sent 
me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come 



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into condemnation; but is passed from death 
unto life. 

'^Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think 
ye have eternal life : and these are they which 
testify of me. 

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that be- 
lieveth on me, the works that I do shall he do 
also ; and greater works than these shall he do ; 
because I go unto my Father. 

''And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, 
that will I do, that the Father may be glori- 
fied in the Son. 

'If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will 
do it. 

"If ye love me, keep my commandments. 
And I will pray the Father, and He shall give 
you another Comforter, that He may abide 
with you forever. 

"Even the Spirit of truth; for he dwelleth 
with you, and shall be in you. 

"These things I have spoken unto you being 
yet present with you. 

"But the Comforter, which is the Holy 
Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name. 
He shall teach you all things, and bring all 
things to your remembrance, whatsoever I 
have said unto you.'' 

Dear reader, this book is written under the 
direction of the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, to 
bring to remembrance Jesus and His works. 
His healing has not been performed in the 
churches as it should have been. Healing of 
the body was a great part of His work ; all im" 



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perfections He cast out, all sickness, sin, and 
death. 

"Flee fornication. Every sin that a man 
doeth is without the body; but he that com- 
mitteth fornication sinneth against his own 
body. 

"What! know ye not that your body is the 
temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, 
which ye have of God, and ye are not your 
own? 

"For ye are bought with a price; therefore 
glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, 
which are God's/' 

Turn to God, and do the miracles that Jesus 
did while on earth; you can if you will, and 
greater miracles, because there is not near so 
much unbelief as when He was among men. 

Have you thought of what the world was 
fifty years ago, or of the great changes that 
have taken place? Distance has been over- 
come; great improvements have been accom- 
plished in so many directions ; locomotion, com- 
munication, electricity so wonderfully utilized; 
and many other changes too numerous to men- 
tion. This is only the beginning, just a very 
small idea of what can be done when people 
become like Jesus. 

"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and 
it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but 
we know that when He shall appear we shall 
be like Him." 

Man is the lord of creation, and when he gets 
married, woman is his better half. This fact is 



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going to take root, and the truth of matrimony 
will be seen and acknowledged, and love will 
be the master of ceremony. 

Home, the dearest place on earth! Society 
will be shaken from its present footing. New 
thoughts along the line of sex rights, home 
making, the rearing of children, the sacredness 
of matrimony and of its enduring, endearing 
obligations, will spring up. 

Sin in every form is gradually being les- 
sened, for good alone can make people happy. 
The commandments should be kept. 

'^The way of the ungodly shall perish. 

"I have seen the wicked in great power, 
and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 
Yet he passed away and was not.'* 

Jesus destroyed not sinners, but their sins. 
When the woman, taken in adultery was 
brought to Him under the law of being stoned 
to death. He said: "I do not condemn thee; 
go and sin no more.'' 

Jesus did everything exactly right. He was 
the most scientific man that ever lived. As we 
sow we reap ; if we sow the wind we will reap 
the whirlwind. 

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His 
righteousness ; and all these things shall be 
added unto you." 

*T have been young and now am old, yet 
have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor 
his seed begging bread.'' 

I am sure we know that God is all-powerful, 
and will help us if we trust Him, and have 



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faith, for through all times these truths have 
been proved. 

*'One generation passeth away and another 
generation cometh; but the earth abideth for 
ever." 

We are in the last days of error: as many 
signs are proving; there are many false Christs 
and many false prophets, showing great won- 
ders, claiming that Jesus will never come on 
earth again. Believe them not. He will come 
as surely as He went. 

Doctrines of devils are coming to an end; 
people have been deceived, and they know it. 
They are going to rebel and stamp all such out, 
that is, overcome evil with good. 

"If thou put the brethren in remembrance 
of these things, thou shalt be a good minister 
of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of 
faith, and of good doctrine, whereunto thou 
hast attained. 

''But refuse profane and old wives' fables, 
and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.'' 

The world is waking up to this fact, realiz- 
ing that sin brings suffering and death, that 
death is an enemy, and can be destroyed. 

Jesus will do everything that He said He 
would do; He will come back on earth and 
live with us when we have finished the work 
He left for us to accomplish. 

"Therefore, be ye also ready : for in such an 
hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh." 

His disciples saw Him taken up to heaven, 
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''And while they looked steadfastly toward 
heaven as He went up, behold two men stood 
by them in white apparel. 

''Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why 
stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same 
Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, 
shall so come in like manner as you have seen 
Him go into heaven/' 

He said: "God is not the God of the dead, 
but of the living/' 

Great and wonderful truths are going to be 
made manifest that were promised eighteen 
hundred years ago, like the leaven that was 
hid in three measures of meal, till the whole 
lump was leavened. 

Some of the facts of Jesus' examples have 
been held up before every generation; the 
leaven has been kept alive, and has been work- 
ing, turning, and overturning, and ere long 
Jesus' science of right living will save the world 
and bring in the eternal reign of harmony, 
heaven on earth, the new earth ; and God and 
his glorified Son will live with us, and be our 
God, and we will be His people. 

You say: "Why did not He come hundreds 
of years ago?" Because the work that He left 
for the children of men has not been done. 
The knowledge of ''good and evil," the knowl- 
edge that made Adam and Eve afraid of their 
nakedness, and hide from God, has been hold- 
ing sway, and in the minds of men it has con- 
trived many ways of their own to be followed. 
He will not come until the people are ready 



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to receive Him, and rejoice to welcome Him 
home. 

Do not seek after man-made knowledge, but 
look to yourself ; root up every hidden sin and 
imperfection; clear out your consciousness; 
do unto others as you would be done by; for- 
give, think good thoughts, pray, have faith. 

''Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father 
which is in heaven is perfect.'' 

Keep the commandments. 

The book of Matthew alone will give you 
a firm foundation to build upon ; then study on 
to the end, the last book, the Revelation. 

The ''little book" is a perfect science of liv- 
ing, a science of healing. Every problem is 
proved. 

Faith in God and His Son Jesus is indis- 
pensable. Jesus put great stress on faith. 
Preaching and healing went hand in hand. 
When John sent his disciples to Jesus to know 
if He really was the expected one, He said, 
''Go and shew John again those things which 
ye do hear and see : the blind receive their 
sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are 
cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised 
up, and the poor have the gospel preached to 
them." 

John announced Jesus' coming; yet error 
crept into his mind, and blinded his under- 
standing, caused him to doubt. We must ever 
be on the watch. The knowledge of ''good and 
evil" is old, very subtle and wise; it has de- 
ceived the whole world. This knowledge must 



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be put down and God must be known as All-in- 
all. 

Jesus came to accomplish this great work, 
and in His name, and through His example, 
this will be wrought. Eventually He will be 
crowned as the Saviour of the world. 

Proclaim the good news from the housetop, 
preach the everlasting gospel, and heal all man- 
ner of disease ; and raise the dead. 

Jesus said: "I am the way, the truth, and 
the life: no man cometh unto the Father but 
by me." 

Our Father, God of Love, Alpha and Omega, 
the beginning and the end. 

Watch, for Jesus is coming as He went.. 
Have your lamps trimmed and burning. Be 
not afraid, for He is your very best friend. 

Divine love marks the hour, and this gospel 
of Jesus' science of living will be preached to 
the world, and then the end of all evil will 
come. 

''A voice from heaven was heard, saying, 
Alleluia; for the Lord God omnipotent 
reigneth. 

''Let no man deceive you; watch, pray, and 
work for this great reward. Observe the signs 
of the times, for the Son of man is coming." 



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LOVE, PRAISE AND PRAYER. 

"Beloved, let us love one another: for love 
is of God; and every one that loveth is born 
of God, and knoweth God. 

'*He that loveth not knoweth not God; for 
God is love." 

'Traise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion, 
and unto thee shall the vow be performed/' 

The subject of prayer has agitated the minds 
of people through all ages. I have heard so 
many people say: "I never had a prayer an- 
swered in my life, and have prayed with all 
faith in the name of Jesus Christ." A mother 
said: 'T prayed for my baby boy to be healed 
and live. Now, if God answered prayer and 
healed, He would have heard me and spared my 
darling from death." In anger she declared 
that if a mother's prayer was not heard for an 
innocent little child, that had never sinned, 
then there was no help in prayer. 

It has been often cited about the whole na- 
tion praying for the president and his being 
healed. 

Why these failures? Jesus and His apostles, 
Paul and other Bible characters, healed and 
had their prayers answered in olden times. 

Is there not some misapprehension? God 
never changes ; we are told that He is the same 
yesterday, to-day and forever, and that His 
laws are for all time and for all people. 



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''Serve the Lord with gladness; come before 
His presence with singing. 

''Know ye that the Lord He is God : it is He 
that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we 
are His people, and the sheep of His pasture. 

"Enter into His gate with thanksgiving, 
and unto His courts with praise : be thankful 
unto Him, and bless His name. 

"For the Lord is good ; His mercy is everlast- 
ing; and His truth endureth to all genera- 
tions." 

"Verily, verily, I say unto you. He that be- 
lieveth on me, the works that I do he shall do 
also ; and greater works than these shall he do ; 
because I go unto my Father. 

"And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, 
that will I do, that the Father may be glori- 
fied in the Son. 

"If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will 
do it. 

"If ye love me, keep my commandments." 

"A new commandment I give unto you, 
That ye love one another ; as I have loved you, 
that ye also love one another. 

"By this shall all men know that ye are my 
disciples, if ye have love toward one an- 
other." 

A lawyer asked Jesus, which is the greatest 
commandment in the law? Jesus said unto 
him : "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with 
all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with 
all thy mind. 

"This is the first and g^reat commandment. 



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And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love 
thy neighbor as thyself. 

''On these two commandments hang all the 
law and the prophets." 

May we not then conclude that God does 
hear the fervent, effectual prayers of His chil- 
dren to-day, as of yore? 

When I was young and inexperienced, in my 
twenties, I had a very vivid and sad experience. 
I did not know much about church and teach- 
ings, had never joined any denomination, but 
attended Sunday school after I was a well- 
grown girl. I always had the most profound 
respect for all religious rites. I loved God, and 
had great faith in His protecting care. I loved 
religious people, could sit at their feet and hear 
them talk and relate their experiences. I loved 
to hear about God's goodness, and about 
the coming of Jesus and of His cruel treat- 
ment. 

My blessings were many ; I was amply repaid 
for my love, my child-like faith and my adora- 
tion. I was a happy child and a happy woman. 
I knew but little about sin, therefore I lived to 
love and to be loved, under the protecting care 
of a loving Father in heaven. Consequently, 
my first real trouble was a terrible blow, be- 
yond my powers of description. My dear hus- 
band took cold, and day by day got more feeble. 
I saw and grieved over his condition. I often 
talked to his physician, and was finally told by 
the latter that no more could be done, and he 
advised counsel, which at once was procured. 



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only to give the same verdict. No hope ; death 
seemed inevitable. I could not give him up, so 
I cried mightily to my God to save him, to 
put some remedy in the doctors' minds that 
would heal him. I could not believe that God 
would let him die and leave me and his four 
helpless little chidren. 

I looked to the physicians for the healing; 
I had never heard of any person in those days 
being healed any other way. That was over 
thirty years ago, about the time people began 
to think for themselves, independent of the 
church laws, and man-made doctrines. It was 
at that time I learned much about God and 
man. One day my loved one looked very pale 
and sick and got up and left the room to go to 
bed; he was so weak he could hardly walk. 
I was seized with an awful, overpowering fore- 
boding, an awful dread of being left alone to 
rear our children. Consequently I fell upon my 
knees, put my hands over my eyes, and prayed 
that he would not die. There was a great light 
came in the room. I remained on my knees, 
There was a ray of light extending across the 
room, and on it my husband lay, dead. I was 
terrified. I got up and went to him and told 
him what I had seen. 

He said: 'That tells the story. I will get 
ready to meet my God and to leave you and 
the children." 

So he began at once and soon passed away, 
just went to sleep. I heard someone say he 
was dead. I was impelled to raise my head 



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from off the bed where I was kneeling, and 
looked up and saw him alive in the form of 
light, O ! so beautiful. 

For a moment I felt glad' that he was at rest. 
But alas! I was left to grieve and suffer and 
was so broken because God let him die, my 
faith was terribly shaken. 

Medicine also took a mighty drop in my esti- 
mation. 

''No man can serve two masters; for either 
he will hate the one, and love the other, or 
else he will hold to the one, and despise the 
other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." 

I told our preacher about what I saw, and 
he said it was a w^onderful experience, and 
counseled me to give it to the world, as it was 
given me from God for a purpose. 

''God's ways are mysterious His wonders 
to perform ; He plants His footstep on the sea 
and rides upon the storm." 

God has been graciously fitting me for the 
glorious work of helping to destroy the works 
of the devil, and to proclaim the love of God 
and His Son Jesus Christ to the world. 

"And the great dragon was cast out, that 
old serpent, called the devil and Satan, which 
deceived the whole world : he was cast out into 
the earth, and his angels were cast out with 
him. 

"And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, 
Now is come salvation, and strength, and the 
kingdom of our God, and the power of His 
Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast 



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down, which accused them before our God day 
and night." 

''And I saw another angel fly in the midst of 
heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach 
unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every 
nation, and kindred, and tongue and people. 

''Saying with a loud voice. Fear God, and 
give glory to Him ; for the hour of His judg- 
ment is come; and worship Him that made 
heaven and earth, and the sea, and the foun- 
tains of water/' 

I will give you some idea of two helps; of 
what I saw and heard while being prepared for 
this work. I saw a woman with a home-made 
instrument in her right hand indicating that 
she would draw people to her, or to her sect. 
And then a man follows with a sharp tool that 
he handed to me, which I took, and pierced it 
through my left hand ; it did not hurt nor make 
my hand bleed ; I looked at the tool and the 
condition for some time, and then took it out 
as I put it in and threw it away, then I saw 
great flashes of light. Remember the light 
came after I threw it all away, rejected it, 
saw it all go down. 

Again, I was upstairs looking after a man. 
I stepped into his room and saw him intently 
making his bed. Very soon I heard a key put 
in a keyhole, outside of the door. I was terri- 
bly frightened and called to the man for help, 
but he kept on making his bed ; so I saw there 
was no help or escape as there was no other 
door to the room except the one. In despera- 



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tion I turned and saw a great square, new tim- 
ber across the middle of the door. I thought, 
no help, no way to get out. There I stood in 
despair; finally I looked down to the floor and 
saw a ray of light penetrating the darkness 
and extending a short distance into the room. 
I fell down on it and crawled out on my hands 
and knees, in the straight and narrow hall- 
way, trembling all over with fear. I turned 
and saw, as I firmly believe, Jesus, the Christ, 
just as described ; after his transfiguration, 
perfectly beautiful. He raised his hand and 
motioned me to go on. I did and the way or 
hall was open at the end and I saw the blue 
sky and one star in it, the Star of Bethlehem. 

I will give in a very brief way part of the 
interpretation : 

I am to discredit all man-made doctrines and 
every device. I must humble self, become as a 
little child, get in the well-lighted, narrow way, 
and follow as directed by Jesus. 

Paul explains my position better than I can. 

"And I, brethren, when I come to you, come 
not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, 
declaring unto you the testimony of God. 

''For I am determined not to know anything 
among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him cruci- 
fied. 

"And I was with you in weakness, and in 
fear, and in much trembling. 

"And my speech and my preaching was not 
with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in 
demonstration of the Spirit and of power. 



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''That your faith should not stand in the 
wisdom of men, but in the power of God/' 



THE STUDENTS' PRACTICE. 

On one occasion Jesus' students asked him, 
''Who is the greatest in the kingdom of 
heaven ?" 

He answered and said, "Verily I say unto 
you, Except ye be converted, and become as a 
little child, ye shall not enter into the kingdom 
of heaven. 

"Whosoever therefore shall humble himself 
as a little child, the same is greatest in the 
kingdom of heaven." 

Dear student, I tremble before the task of 
setting forth this all-important course of pro- 
cedure. Nevertheless, I know that, God with 
me, I can do His will ; unhesitatingly I urge 
upon every person the great necessity of be- 
coming Christ-like. Take the Bible as a text- 
book, and especially the "little book," the 
Revelation. 

I was chosen, and told to write this book, 
for the express purpose of reminding the chil- 
dren of men that Jesus Christ is as he said, the 
way, the truth, and the life. 

"Search the scriptures ; for in them ye think 
ye have eternal life; and they are they which 
testify of me." 

To be like Jesus, to imitate him in all his 
ways, is the duty of every student. 



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''Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that be- 
lieves on me, the works that I do shall he do 
also; and greater work than these shall he do; 
because I go to the Father/' 

Love is the fulfilling of the law ; perfect love 
casteth out fear. Never lived a human being 
in the form of flesh and blood that loved hu- 
manity as did the humble Nazarene, the friend 
of the friendless, the preacher to the poor ; lov- 
ing, tender, merciful as a mother. A homeless 
man, He said, ''The foxes have holes, and the 
birds have nests; but the Son of man hath 
not where to lay his head.'' 

Remember, Jesus was working for you, and 
for me. "Lo, I am with you always, even 
unto the end of the world." 

What are we that God cares so much for us? 

What is God? 

"God is Alpha and Omega, the beginning 
and the end, the first and last." 

What is Spirit? 

Spirit is God, the divine principle of man, 
intelligence, mind, soul, love, truth, eternal 
good. 

What is Jesus Christ? 

Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the Re- 
deemer, the Saviour. 

"I have glorified Thee on the earth ; I have 
finished the work which Thou gavest me to 
do." 

What is the Holy Ghost, or Comforter? 

The Spirit of Truth, our teacher that was 
sent from God. 



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What is man? 

Man is a perfect creation or manifestation 
of God ; he is wisely and wonderfully made in 
the image and likeness of Jesus Christ. 

''I and my Father are one/' 

'*He that hath seen me hath seen the 
Father." 

Man is the lord of all created things, and, 
God with him, he can prevail over the world, 
the flesh, and the devil (all evil). 

Paul said, ''What, know ye not that your 
body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which ye 
have of God, and ye are not your own?" 

The thinking faculty of man, the mind, con- 
trols his being, makes him conscious of good 
or evil. Therefore O man, keep the whole 
body clean; be of sound mind, and give all 
glory to the God of Love. 

In the scriptures we read, "What is man, 
that thou art mindful of him, or the son of 
man that thou visitest him? 

"Thou madest him a little lower than the 
angels; thou crownedst him with glory and 
honour, and didst set him over the works of 
thy hand: 

"Thou hast put all things in subjection un- 
der His feet. For in that He put all in subjec- 
tion under him, He left nothing that is not put 
under him. But now we see not yet all things 
put under Him." 

True, we have not seen the full glory of 
man, nor have we seen but little in this age of 
what he is capable of accomplishing. Man en- 



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3owed with the full knowledge of his God- 
given ability can do the miracles that Jesus 
did. 

The human body is a world's wonder, and 
has had a vast amount of thought centered 
upon it. Is it not the greatest of God's handi- 
works? It would be useless for me to say 
much about it. Countless millions have made 
a living by doctoring the body ; in so many, O 
so many, different ways. Mints of money have 
been spent learning how to heal the body, and 
mints paid to the healers. Body, you are a 
theme that has agitated the minds of all men. 

What would the world be if this immense 
traffic in healing should be demolished? Stop 
and consider soberly along this line, for the 
time is coming when all former things will be 
no more. 

Jesus, the great physician, is the way, the 
living, eternal way. God sent Jesus to show 
the world how to live, and how to heal. Event- 
ually, all people will know the way God or- 
dained, and all evil, disease and death will be 
banished. 

Never was a more beautiful, interesting, in- 
structive, pathetic story than that of the hum- 
ble Nazarene. Angels announced his birth ; 
wise men were guided by a star to see and 
worship him. The minds of all men were 
centered on the innocent little baby. King 
Herod, greatly agitated, did all in his power 
to remove Him from the earth. Nevertheless 
He grew and waxed strong; under divine in- 



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telligence he could but fulfill His mission. He 
was a comely man; very active, diligent in 
business, cleanly; a man among men in every 
respect, no silly prude, but a noble, good, 
honest man, a preacher, a teacher, a healer. 
He was moderate in all things; He did not 
pray, nor fast to be seen of men. He was ''as 
wise as a serpent and as harmless as a dove'' ; 
loving, meek and merciful, always forgiving 
and urging people to be good. 

''O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest 
the prophets, and stonest them which are sent 
unto thee, how often would I have gathered 
thy children together, even as a hen gathereth 
her chickens under her wings, and ye 
would not"! 

He gave all honor to His Father, had great 
faith, prayed often, and gave us the prayer 
that covers every need. 

Be not afraid ; follow in the footsteps of 
Jesus; take the ''little book'' as your guide to 
eternal life. 

Man is the image and likeness of God, and 
when he is advanced in spiritual understanding 
as Jesus was, he can heal, prophesy, and do 
the miracles that Jesus did. 

"He that believes on me, the work that I do 
shall he do also." 

Then take heart, and begin at once to ac- 
complish this great feat. 

''If thou wilt enter into life keep the com- 
mandments." 

"If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell what 



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thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt 
have treasure in heaven : and come and follow 
me. 

''Verily, I say unto you, that a rich man shall 
hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven." 

"Love of money is the root of all evil." Not 
money, but the love of money. The disciples 
were amazed, saying: ''Who, then," can be 
saved?" 

He said, "That ye which have followed me, 
in regeneration." Regeneration ! The new 
birth, entrance upon a new spiritual life. Be- 
come regenerated, be born again into the spirit- 
ual life eternal. Do not expect perfection at 
one bound, but gradually grow to be more 
like Jesus; think no evil, then you will do no 
evil. 

"Except a man be born again, he cannot see 
the kingdom of God. Marvel not that I said 
unto thee, ye must be born again. 

"That which is born of the flesh is flesh ; and 
that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." 

Jesus came to show all men how to put out 
every evil belief; all kinds of sickness are 
devils (evils). 

There is an evil spirit, and a good spirit ; a 
bad mind, and a good mind. "And He that 
searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind 
of the Spirit." 

"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try 
the spirits whether they are of God : because 
many false prophets are gone out in the world. 

"Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every 



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spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come 
in the flesh is of God." 

God is love. There is no fear in love; but 
perfect love casteth out fear ; because fear hath 
torment. *'He that feareth is not made perfect 
in love." 

''And this is life eternal, that they might 
know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, 
whom Thou hast sent. 

''Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal 
body, that ye should obey it in the lusts 
thereof. 

"Know ye not that to whom ye yield your- 
selves servants to obey, his servants ye are to 
whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or 
of obedience unto righteousness. 

"But man being made free from sin, and be- 
come servants to God, ye haA^e your fruit unto 
holiness, and the end everlasting life. 

"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift 
of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our 
Lord. 

"But I see another law in my members, 
warring against the law of my mind, and bring- 
ing me into captivity to the law of sin which 
is in my members. I thank God through Jesus 
Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I my- 
self serve the law of God; but with the flesh 
the law of sin." 

Note the warring against mind. Look well 
to your thought; be spiritually minded. 

Paul expresses so plainly the truth ; he was a 
wonderful disciple and his epistles are helpful 



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to the student who should become very familiar 
with them. 

When we are advanced in spiritual under- 
standing, become like Jesus; we will do the 
works that he did, be healers, seers, prophets, 
and perform miracles, do many things that are 
beyond human power. 

Doubt not ; be not afraid ; aspire to the high 
calling for that is God's will; that is why He 
sent His Son into the world. 

The kingdom of heaven is at hand. 

Work out your own salvation. 

"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it 
doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we 
know that, when He shall appear, we shall be 
like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. 

"And every man that hath this hope in him 
purifieth himself, even as He is pure.'' 

To become pure even as Jesus is pure, will 
take time, constant watching, praying and 
denying the human self. Watch every thought ; 
think no evil. ''As a man thinketh in his heart 
so is he." 

Control yourself by the power of mind. God 
gave man intelligence, thinking faculties, a 
mind to control himself and to control every 
living thing on the earth. 

''Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I 
say rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto 
all men. The Lord is at hand. 

''Be careful for nothing; but in every thing 
by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving 
let your requests be made known unto God. 



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''And the peace of God, which passeth all 
understanding, shall keep your hearts and 
minds through Christ Jesus. 

''Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are 
true, whatsoever are honest, whatsoever are 
just, whatsoever things pure, whatsoever 
things are lovely, whatsoever things are of 
good report ; if there be any virtue, and if there 
be any praise, think on these things/' 

Thinking good thoughts will work wonders, 
has worked wonders ; think as Jesus thought, 
have the mind He had. 

"Let this mind be in you, which was also in 
Christ Jesus. 

"Let us, therefore, as many as be perfect, 
be thus minded : and if in any thing ye be 
otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this 
unto you. 

"Nevertheless, whereto we have already at- 
tained, let us walk by the same rule, let us 
mind the same thing." 

Be perfect, love God, and fear no evil. Jesus 
reproved the blindness of Pharisees, and re- 
fused to give them a sign. 

"An evil, adulterous generation seeketh after 
a sign, and there shall no sign be given to it, 
but the sign of the prophet Jonas : 

"For as Jonas was three days and three 
nights in a whale's belly; so shall the Son of 
man be three days and three nights in the 
heart of the earth. 

"Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God 
out of the fish's belly. 



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"And said, I cried by reason of mine afflic- 
tion unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of 
the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my 
voice." Jesus prevailed over the grave to show 
God's power. 

Jonah's experience was given to show that 
God's will should be done, and that mental 
torment is hell. Jonah was suffering in mind, 
for he was as he thought out at sea, in a whale's 
belly; his mind was greatly disturbed. 

Heaven is also a consciousness of good. 
Think good thoughts, think about living and 
not about dying. Do not think about growing 
old; you are as you think you are. Think 
health thoughts. Treat all error as you would 
a thief; send them out of your consciousness; 
know that God never created sickness, sin, or 
death. Call every claim of sickness by name, 
consumption, toothache, or sorrow; denounce, 
deny, and send them hence. It is best not to 
record ages, but live in the now; think not of 
the morrow. 

'Tonder the path of thy feet, and let all thy 
ways be established. 

'Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: 
remove thy foot from evil." 

When all evil is known no more, God will 
dwell here on earth with us and be our God, 
and we will inherit all things. 

It is very important for us to know all we 
can about Jesus if we are to become like Him 
and do even greater work than He did. He 
was fashioned and fitted for his work. 



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No man ever saw so much in nature as Jesus 
saw. God's wonderful creation in all of its 
beauty and goodness satisfied him. His early 
training, the holy uplifting home influence, his 
education, and his knowledge of God and God's 
saving power, fitted Him for His thirty-three 
years' work. He lived as He taught, and we 
are to do as He did, to overcome all evil. 

Jesus began at the rudiments of right living. 
That is why I insist upon all people having 
homes like Jesus had, and children being raised 
as He was raised. 

I have been drifting, drifting, but, God's holy 
name be praised for His great goodness and 
His wonderful wisdom. I have at last come to 
a standstill, and stand by the great Rock. 

''Unless the Lord had been my help, my 
soul had almost dwelt in silence. 

''When I said, my foot slippeth ; Thy mercy, 
O Lord, helped me up. 

'Tn the multitude of my thoughts within me 
Thy comforts delight my soul. 

"Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship 
with Thee, which frameth mischief by a law? 
''They gather themselves together against 
the soul of the righteous and condemn the in- 
nocent blood. 

"But the Lord is my defence ; and my God is 
the rock of my refuge. 

"And he shall bring upon them their own 
iniquity, and shall cut them ofif in their own 
wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut 
them off." 



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God has been good to me, as to you. I have 
fallen short of His high calling, and have suf- 
fered accordingly, for if we sin we suffer. 

Search the scriptures ; learn to be like Jesus ; 
overcome evil with good; control every 
thought; think no evil; keep all of the com- 
mandments, and the golden rule, love God and 
man. 



PROVE ALL THINGS 

"Prove all things; hold fast that which is 
good." 

Jesus Christ solved and proved the prob- 
lem of right 'living, and left His example for 
all of us to profit by. This is the tug-of-war: 
to work out our own salvation, and to prove 
that it is the right way. 

The star of Bethlehem is again being seen 
by the wise people, and they are following this 
bright day star to eternal bliss. 

Jesus' science of living can be learned by 
beginning with the New Testament, and by 
studiously and prayerfully studying it as a text 
book. 

It is indeed sweet to know that Jesus over- 
came the devil (all evil), sin, sickness, death, 
and the grave. But to do likewise is bitter, a 
hard struggle even to overcome self. 

''He that overcometh shall inherit all things ; 
and I will be his God and he shall be my son.'' 

''And I saw another mighty angel come down 



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from heaven, clothed with a cloud : and a rain- 
bow was upon his head, and his face was as it 
were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire : and 
he had in his hand a little book open : and he 
set his right foot upon the sea, and his left 
foot on the earth/' 

This angel or message which comes from 
God, clothed with a cloud, prefigures divine 
science. 

"This angel had in his hand 'a little book,' 
open for all to read and understand. Did this 
same book contain the revelation of divine 
science, the 'right foot' or dominate the power 
which was upon the sea — upon elementary, 
latent error, the source of all error's visible 
forms? The angel's left foot was upon the 
earth; that is, a secondary power was exer- 
cised upon visible error and audible sin. The 
'still small voice' of scientific thought reaches 
over continent and ocean to the globe's re- 
motest bound. The inaudible voice of Truth 
is, to the human mind, 'as when a lion roareth.' 
It is heard in the desert and in dark places of 
fear. It arouses the 'seven thunders' of evil, 
and stirs their latent forces to enter the full 
diapason of secret tones." 

"Then is the power of Truth demonstrated — 
made manifest in the destruction of error. 
Then will a voice from harmony cry : *Go and 
take the little book' * * * 'Take it, and eat 
it up ; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it 
shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.' Mortals, 
obey this heavenly evangel. Take divine 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 137 

science. Read this book from beginning to 
end. Study it, ponder it. It will be indeed 
sweet at first taste, when it heals you; but 
murmur not over Truth, if you find its diges- 
tion bitter." 

For about twenty years I tried to prove 
science and health, to digest it as a big pill, 
but it was too big, and too bitter; it claimed 
too much. 

I studied it faithfully, took the C. S. degree. 
Christian Science, Practitioner, Dr., if you 
please. Poor, deluded me! Trying to give 
up Jesus, to believe that God never sent Him ; 
that Christian Science is the impersonal Christ, 
the Comforter, or Holy Ghost ; that man is not 
flesh and blood; that there is no life in the 
body, and so many other Eddy-made errors. 
Home-made ideas ! All that is new in ''Science 
and Health" is false; come from the knowl- 
edge of good and evil. 

"Perhaps the early christian era did Jesus 
no more injustice than the later centuries have 
bestowed upon the healing Christ and spiritual 
idea of being. Now that the gospel of healing 
is again preached by the wayside, does not the 
pulpit sometimes scorn it? But that curative 
mission, which presents the Saviour in a clearer 
light than mere word can possibly do, cannot 
be left out of Christianity, although it is again 
ruled out of the synagogue. 

'Tn the words of St. John: 'He shall give 
you another Comforter, that He may abide 
with you forever.' This Comforter I under- 



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stand to be Divine Science. Jesus demon- 
strated Christ; He proved that Christ is the 
divine idea of God — the Holy Ghost or Com- 
forter, reveaHng the divine principle, love, and 
leading into all truth." 

Well, it vv^ill suffice for me to say that I have 
proved it, as a w^hole, to be home-made, that 
is, outside of Bible teachings. I did good 
healing by faith in Jesus and kno^ying that 
God is all, but when I tried to get scientific, to 
know that there was no life in the body, no 
sensation in matter, I invariably failed. I 
proved Christian Science to be of the earth 
earthy. I am determined to know Jesus as the 
only way and to prove to the world, that I 
am right. 

Mrs. Eddy was a wonderful leader, a money 
maker. No ruler ever kept his subjects under 
better control. Her word was law among her 
loyal followers. By the way, I took a higher 
degree from my teacher, I think it was C. S. D., 
but in time received a letter saying: 

''Dear Student: Please destroy the papers 
that I gave you. Our dear mother in Israel 
tells us not to fit any more teachers." 

I took. the course, and also the setback. She 
ran a swift race, and drew thousands to her 
doctrine, one of Jesus' proofs of the last days 
of error. 

''And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, 
here is Christ ; or, lo. He is there ; believe him 
not. 

"For false Christs and false prophets shall 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 139 

rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to se- 
duce, if it were possible, even the elect. 

'*But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold 
you all things/' 

Mrs. Eddy has left the field, left her flock of 
sheep, without a shepherd; and consequently 
the cause will decline for it is a false Christ, a 
false Holy Ghost. The head has been laid low 
by death, and as it came it will go, quickly. 

We have been warned and should watch as 
Titus says, "Looking for that blessed hope, and 
the glorious appearing of the great God and 
our Saviour Jesus Christ. 

''Who gave Himself for us, that He might 
redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto 
Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good 
works.'* 

It will take more or less time to unlearn our 
preconceived man-made doctrines, and to live 
and be like Jesus, but as sure as we are alive, 
we can and will at some time be like him and 
do as he did. 

I have had many visions and dreams to help 
me to live to see this day of limited under- 
standing. A babe in my unexplored science of 
right living, yet in faith and confidence I am 
proving my new way to be Jesus' perfect, 
proved way, God's way. 

Unspeakable adoration, love, faith and in- 
tense emotion have often filled my entire being 
for God and the glorious example made mani- 
fest by Jesus, to the children of men. God 
knows me, and I feel secure in His keeping. 



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All my life I have loved, prayed and looked to 
God for help. I have cast my bread upon the 
waters, and my promise is sure; it will re- 
turn. 

Jesus lived to let live, proved His power by 
His works. We are beginning, learning to 
read, being born again, becoming like little 
children, being regenerated, spiritually minded, 
having the mind that Jesus had. 

''If the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus 
from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up 
Christ from the dead shall also quicken your 
mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in 
you.'; 

Being remade by the power of divine mind, 
and by following in the footsteps of Jesus, our 
perfect example ; in faith and hope, confidently 
believing that we shall attain the high calling 
of the children of God, heirs, joint heirs, with 
Jesus Christ. 

We must control ourselves, be good, and 
never give a place for the devil (all evil) to 
enter into our consciousness. 

If you have been indulging in any of the 
myriad sins that the father of lies instigated, 
abstain. Turn with loathing from the whole 
kingdom of the subtle serpent. His is a strong 
kingdom, old even from the beginning. He 
has run his race ; he is ripe for destruction ; 
he has stung himself to death. Our Lord God 
Almighty will soon reign; the father of lies, 
the murderer of truth, will return to his native 
nothingness. 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 141 

Now IS the day of our salvation, now is the 
time to begin to work for the end. Take Jesus' 
science of living for your guide to eternal har- 
mony. By trying it, every moment will be 
filled with victory, dominion, freedom. Do 
not close your eyes to the little temptations. 
It is the little foxes that spoil the vines. 

The cry of an infant just born seems so 
wonderful to me, such an unfolding of God's 
wonderful ways. Such an unusual noise, no 
sound on earth like it; and to see the expres- 
sion on its face, so unsightly, so drawn, with 
the tears streaming down it, a sign of human 
nature, human weakness, looking for human 
help, looking to mother, an animal instinct. I 
have given such signs much study. 

Sleep is another great mystery to me. Some 
time we shall know all things and the hidden 
mysteries shall be revealed. 

It behooves this enlightened age to look 
well to the bringing of children into the 
world, and of bringing them up, raising them 
properly. Many parents neglect so many vital 
points of importance. Nothing on earth can 
compare with this greatest duty, the sacred 
duty of becoming parents. 

Jesus said, ^'Unless ye become as a little 
child, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of 
heaven.'' 

I believe that I was born, that I came into the 
world as God so ordered children to come. I 
believe in innate, or inborn, conditions, that 
like produces like. 



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Jesus said, ''Do men gather grapes of thorns, 
or figs of thistles?" 

He took notice of little things. 

The human body is to my mind the most 
wonderful idea of all created, so wisely formed, 
so completely a perfect structure. 

I have proved everything that I am giving 
to you. 

Paul gives the clearest and the best example 
of God's plan of salvation and of what can 
be accomplished by man. 

''I, brethren, could not speak unto you as 
unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto 
babes in Christ. 

"I have planted; Apollos watered; but God 
gave the increase. 

"So then neither is he that planteth any- 
thing, neither he that watereth; but God that 
giveth the increase. 

''Now he that planteth and he that watereth 
are one ; and every man shall receive his own 
reward according to his labor. 

"For we are laborers together with God ; ye 
are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. 

"According to the grace of God which is 
given unto me as a wise masterbuilder, I have 
laid the foundation, and another buildeth there- 
on. But let every man take heed how he 
buildeth thereupon. 

"For other foundations can no man lay than 
that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 

"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, 
and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 143 

*'If any man defile the temple of God, him 
shall God destroy (that is, His works) ; for the 
temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." 

As God is my judge, I believe that we, as 
mortals, are of great value, worth many spar- 
rows; that man is the noblest work of God, 
and that Jesus came to lay the foundation for 
all builders. God sent Him to save the world, 
and all men, from the greatest to the least, will 
be saved from sin, sickness, pain, sorrow and 
death. 

To the man that was born blind Jesus re- 
stored his sight. 

"And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man 
which was blind from his birth. 

''Then again called they the man that was 
blind, and said unto him. Give God the praise ; 
we know that this man (Jesus) is a sinner. 

"He answered and said, Whether he be 
a sinner or no, I know not ; one thing I know, 
that, whereas I was blind, now I see.'' 

Jesus has, was and will be misrepresented 
by the would-be wise among men ; neverthe- 
less, time will prove Him to be what He said 
He was. 

Mrs. Eddy says, "Mortal man has made a 
covenant with his eyes to belittle Deity with 
human conceptions. 

"He becomes a general mis-creator who be- 
lieves he is a semi-god. 

"Divine Science lays the axe at the root of 
the illusion, that life, or mind, is formed by or 
in the material body, and Science will eventu- 



144 JESUS CHRIST SCIENCE 

ally destroy this illusion through the self-de- 
struction of all error and the beatified under- 
standing of the Science of life. 

'*The belief that pain and pleasure, life and 
death, holiness and unholiness, mingle in man, 
— that mortal, material man is the likeness 
of God and is himself a creator — is a fatal 
error. 

''Mortals are egotists. They believe them- 
selves to be independent workers, personal au- 
thors, and even privileged originators of some- 
thing which Deity would not or could not 
create." 

I do not believe that a man is a creator any 
more than I believe that woman is a creator 
who plants a sweet pea in her garden. 

Jesus was the greatest man that was ever 
born. Time has not detracted from the old, 
old story; it has lost nothing, and will be told 
over and over again, with new enthusiasm and 
pathos. 

He was a man among men. He was loving, 
tender and very sympathetic; He wept with 
those that wept. Great miracles, wonderful 
feats, wise counsel and sympathetic, loving 
kindness He made manifest. He raised the 
dead, walked on the water, stilled the tempest, 
fed the hungry, cared for poor and took notice 
of every daily need. Believe in Him and do 
greater miracles. 

Recollect that like produces like. No new 
or unreasonable course of procedure is re- 
quired. Good morals, common sense, love for 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 145 

God and man, faith and to be a follower of 
Jesus is all that is required. 

To replenish the earth with the right kind 
of people, and to subdue it, is the imperative 
demand of the day. 

By the eternal priesthood of Jesus Christ, by 
the covenant of the gospel, and the still, small 
voice of the Holy Ghost, we are to know the 
truth. 

"I will put my laws into their mind, and 
write them in their hearts; and I will be their 
God, and they shall be to me a people. 

''And they shall not teach every man his 
neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 
Know the Lord; for all shall know me from 
the least to the greatest.'' 

The union of male and female, the rearing of 
children, is of vastly more importance than any 
other calling under the sun. Mothers, you can 
do much for your children before they are born. 
I have proved it. In my four living children 
can be seen, in their natures, the predominating 
thoughts of my mind. While I was bearing my 
oldest son I loved books, was very literary, a 
student, anxious to keep up with the times. 
The boy loves books. In the other three can 
also be found similar proofs. Oh, could I im- 
press upon the minds of all people the im- 
portance of right living, of seeing to this life, 
and only knowing good, I would feel repaid. 

Work and watch for the coming of Jesus, for 
whatever he said is true. 

"Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, 



146 JESUS CHRIST SCIENCE 

that one day is with the Lord as a thousand 
years, and a thousand years as one day/' 

'Tor many shall come in my name, saying, I 
am Christ; and shall deceive many. Behold, I 
have told you before. 

''Wherefore if they shall say unto you. Be- 
hold, he is in the desert ; go not forth : behold, 
he is in the secret chambers ; believe it not. 

"For as the lightning cometh out of the east, 
and shineth even unto the west, so shall also 
the coming of the Son of man be.'' 

Faith and belief often mean the same. 

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped 
for, the evidence of things not seen." 

By faith the Red Sea separated its waters, 
the walls of Jericho fell, kingdoms were sub- 
dued, bread rained from heaven, quails and 
manna supplied, rocks poured forth water. 

By faith we can all have similar blessings. 
All that is needed is to grow to be like Jesus. 

"Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." 

Sin not ; let him that stole steal no more ; 
cast out all things that come from God's enemy. 

"Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my 
name: ask and ye shall receive, that your joy 
may be full." 

Yes, dear reader, your joy will be full. For 
salvation is free, and Jesus taught the way out 
of all trouble, how to overcome all error. 

God sent Him to save the world from every- 
thing the Father did not create, from all that 
came from his enemy, the carnal mind, the 
father of lies. 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 147 

He made bodies whole, healed them; He 
saved his, own body from corruption. 

'*I am the resurrection and the life : he that 
believeth in me though he were dead, yet shall 
he live. 

''And whosoever liveth and believeth in me 
shall never die. Believeth thou this? 

''Martha said. Yea, Lord : I believe that thou 
art the Christ, the Son of God, which should 
come into the world.'' 

Jesus and Lazarus did not come out of the 
graves as spirits, but as men, proving that life 
is of God, and that death is of the devil. 

"Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal 
body, that ye should obey it in the lusts 
thereof. 

"For when ye were the servants of sin, ye 
were free from righteousness. 

"What fruit had ye then in those things 
whereof ye are now ashamed? For the end of 
those things is death. But now being made 
free from sin, and become servants to God, ye 
have your fruit unto holiness, and the end ever- 
lasting life. 

"For the wages of sin is death ; but the gift 
of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our 
Lord." 

There is a sore need of better conditions, and 
this age of enlightenment is ready to grasp the 
opportunity. Jesus solved the problem of liv- 
ing beyond a doubt. He proved that all ma- 
terial conditions can be overcome by the 
knowledge of God. If we are Christ-like and 



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believe in God and His Son, we can do even 
greater works. Jesus laid the foundation, we 
must build on it. 

You are the likeness of God, wisely and won- 
derfully made; apprehend this truth and be- 
come alive to your privileges, and confidently 
and joyfully go forth to help establish the king- 
dom of God on earth, as it is in heaven. The 
signs are on all sides of a giant need of im- 
proving conditions. 

Greed of gain, display of wealth, of merciless 
overreaching and reckless dishonesty to acquire 
riches and worldly power, to become great and 
seem wise, to be admired, to have attention, 
to get divorced and become noted — these are 
things to cry down. 

It is no wonder that men^s hearts are failing 
them, that their fears and discouragement 
abound, that they are heard cryinp- out that 
life is a tragedy, a dismal failure ! True, the old 
way of believing in the knowledge of good and 
evil, of trusting in doctrines of men, has proved 
and led up to these horrible conditions. But 
there is a pillar of fire by night and of cloud 
by day to guide us and keep us from going 
astray. Yes, dear heart, the way is mapped 
out and we can follow it ; the way is straight 
and narrow. Jesus' footsteps are on the sands 
of time, and can be followed by any student 
of the Bible. 

Fear not, for he has shown every step of 
the waj^, overcome every ill. 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 149 

*'Now is the judgment of this world: now 
shall the prince of this world be cast out." 

Prove, for yourself, that to be like Jesus is 
the thing to be desired above everything on 
earth. 

"Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is 
a reproach to any people/' 

This beautiful world has been deceived and 
gone astray ; there is great unrest, a running to 
and fro, a sowing of the wind, a reaping of the 
whirlwind. 

O ! vain man, think of Nebuchadnezzar and 
his son. Pride, love of money and sin caused 
them to have great trouble. Belshazzar did 
not profit by his father's experience, but was 
also called to task at a magnificent banquet, be- 
fore a thousand of his lords, his princes, his 
wives and his concubines. 

"They drank wine, and praised the gods of 
gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood 
and of stone. 

"In the same hour came forth fingers of a 
man's hand, and wrote over against the candle- 
stick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's 
palace : and the king saw the part of the hand 
that wrote. 

'Then the king's countenance w^as changed, 
and his thoughts troubled him, so that the 
joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees 
smote one against another. 

"And this is the writing that was written, 
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. 

"This is the interpretation of thing : Mene— 



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God hath numbered thy kingdom, and fin- 
ished it. 

"Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balance, 
and art found wanting. 

'Teres : Thy kingdom is divided, and given 
to the Medes and Persians/' 

If we sin we suffer, because we are under the 
law of sin. 

The parable of the good Samaritan shows 
Jesus' way of treating our f ellowmen : a man 
fell among thieves, ''which stripped him of his 
raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leav- 
ing him half dead." 

A priest and a Levite passed him by. But 
the good Samaritan had compassion on him 
and took care of him. 

"Which now of the three, thinkest thou, was 
neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves? 
"And he said, he that shewed mercy on him, 
Go, and do thou likewise." 

Loving kindness, gentleness, sympathy, 
meekness, mercy, pureness of heart and com- 
passion characterized Jesus. 

He was the most scientific, the best and the 
wisest man that ever lived, and we can all be 
like him. 

"Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man 
be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of 
God. 

"Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man 
be born when he is old? Can he enter the sec- 
ond time into his mother's womb ? 

''Jesus answered, Verily, verily I say unto 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 151 

thee, Except a man be born of water and of 
Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of 
God. 

*'That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and 
that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 

''Marvel not that I said unto thee. Ye must 
be born again." 

"And there appeared a great wonder in 
heaven ; a woman clothed with the sun, and the 
moon under her feet, and upon her head a 
crown of twelve stars : 

''And she being with child, travailing in 
birth, and pained to be delivered. 

"And there appeared another wonder in 
heaven ; and behold a great red dragon, having 
seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns 
upon his heads. 

"And his tail drew the third part of the stars 
of heaven, and did cast them to the earth : and 
the dragon stood before the woman which was 
ready to be delivered, for to devour her child 
as soon as it was born. 

"And she brought forth a man child, who 
was to rule all nations with a rod of iron : and 
her child was caught up unto God, and to his 
throne.'' 

The last great struggle between truth and 
error is described, Truth victorious. 

The serpent that deceived Eve has grown 
to be a great red dragon, ripe for self-destruc- 
tion, stung to death by sin. 

"And I (John) heard a loud voice saying in 
heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, 



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and the kingdom of our God, and the power 
of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren 
is cast down, which accused them before our 
God day and night. 

**And they overcame him by the blood of the 
Lamb." 

The ''man child" sits at the right hand of 
God, until the world is ready to be saved from 
the serpent delusions; then will heaven be at 
hand, and God and Jesus the Christ, the spirit- 
ual man child, come and live on earth with the 
children of men. 

''And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: 
and heard a great voice out of heaven saying, 
Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and 
he will dwell with them, and they shall be his 
people, and God himself shall be with them 
and be their God." 

"For he must reign till he hath put all ene- 
mies under his feet. 

"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is 
death. 

"For he hath put all things under his feet. 
But when he saith all things are put under 
him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which 
did put all thingfs under him. 

"And when all things shall be subdued unto 
him, then shall the Son also himself be sub- 
ject unto him that put all things under him, 
that God may be all in all." 

Evidently we are to be made over by be- 
coming spiritually minded, by becoming Christ- 
like, not like Judas, nor like sinners of to-day. 



OF HEALING AND LIVING 153 

God is able to do all things. The devil is a 
coward before truth; resist him and he will 
flee from you. 

''He that committeth sin is of the devil; 
for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For 
this purpose the Son of God was manifested, 
that he might destroy the works of the devil." 

When Jesus sent out the apostles, enabling 
them with power to work miracles, He told 
them to be as wise as serpents and harmless as 
doves. 

He well knew what they would have to pass 
through and how men would treat them and 
Himself. Nevertheless, He moved bravely on, 
ever saying, "Thy will be done.'' He proved 
the power of God, and how many children the 
devil had on earth. He said to the boasting 
Jews that claimed Abraham for their father: 
*'If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do 
the works of Abraham. 

"But now ye seek to kill me, a man that 
hath told you the truth, which I have heard of 
God : this did not Abraham. 

"Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said 
they to him. We be not born of fornication; 
we have one Father, even God. 

"Jesus said unto them, If God were your 
Father, ye would love me : for I proceed forth 
and came from God ; neither came I of myself, 
but he sent me." 

The inhumanity of man to man has always 
been deplorable, greatly to be feared. O ! man, 
no ravenous beast has ever been more merci- 



154 JESUS CHRIST SCIENCE 

less than you in devouring your prey. It re- 
quires great bravery to stand up against pub- 
lic opinion, old preconceived ideas of men. I 
have dreaded, feared and prayed to escape the 
ordeal of having to face a critical, persecuting 
world. But in obedience and humility I am 
found kneeling at the foot of the cross, saying : 
*'Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." 
This book of remembrance is the outcome of 
a long life. I claim nothing, present nothing 
new ; it is all contained in the Bible. 



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